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    that of a witness who believes he has a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory” (Wiesel, Night viii). As a result of the horrors that Elie Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, he devoted his life to become meaningful. Wiesel’s decent disposition changes through atrociously inhumane conduct toward Jews during the Holocaust as he becomes a brute to solidify identity, levy fears, and boost morale. Before his

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    forever. Family is one of the most important concepts in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night. Elie Wiesel’s relationship with his father drastically changes over the duration of his journey. Elie begins his experience by being completely dependent upon his father, but as he continues through the horrifying years, he learns to be independent. Even in the very beginning of his journey, Elie Wiesel’s life was dependent on a perfect stranger. When Elie and his father first arrived at Auschwitz and were separated

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    perceiving existence through resolute contrasts. The difference between day and night is defined by an absolute line of division. For the Jewish culture in the twentieth century, the dissimilarity between life and death is bisected by a definitive line - the Holocaust. Accounts of life during the genocide of the Jewish culture emerged from within the considerable array of Holocaust survivors, among of which are Elie Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. Both accounts of the Holocaust diverge

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    Topic: Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right. Introduction: Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night is an account of the brutality of the Holocaust faced by Elie at the age of fourteen to fifteen and the horrors he endures. Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right. During the novel, he endures loss of faith as his experience within the Holocaust becomes more difficult. The elements wrong with human nature are represented

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    Elie Wiesel’s Night is a memoir depicting the journey of a young boy, Eliezer, who experienced the Holocaust at a very young age. The Nazis occupied Hungary in the spring of 1944, and Eliezer and his family are deported to a concentration camp. Eliezer and his father are separated from his sister and mother, whom he never sees again. While at several different concentration camps, Eliezer faces a variety of different situations, and he learns to adapt to his circumstances. As his father becomes weaker

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    them is The Holocaust. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel is based on him, a Holocaust survivor, and his experience in the concentration camps. There is also an article titled “Wiesel Offers Students First-Hand Account of Holocaust” by Louis Sahagun that is about Elie Wiesel speaking to students on his involvement with The Holocaust. The film Life is Beautiful is based on The Holocaust as well. It tells the story of a family in the concentration camps. The book Night, the article “Wiesel Offers Students

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    Do authors use figurative language to allow readers to go beyond the words and explore the depths of human experiences? In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the answer lies in the use of similes, imagery, and metaphors. The use of figurative language in Night clearly portrays the horrors of the Holocaust, and gives readers an understanding of the depths of inhumanity encountered during that period in history. By combining metaphors, imagery, similes, and personification, Wiesel draws connections with historical

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    Jews survived as they were forced into hard labour until the end of World War II. One of these survivors was Eliezer ‘Elie’ Wiesel, who documented his experiences of the Holocaust in his memoir “Night” . His experiences and opinion contribute to the overall historical narrative of the Holocaust genocide through the recollection of events as well as first-person encounters. “Night” is renowned as the first piece of Holocaust literature which is majorly conformant with other sources and recounts, depicting

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    He was only the age of fourteen when he was taken from his home by the Germans. Wiesel’s strength shines through in his novel of immorality and opens the eyes of many readers. Elie Wiesel encounters several instances of darkness but also everlasting love throughout his grueling experience with concentration camps and attempted genocide of the Jewish community in his book, Night. One of the main themes of Night, facing darkness, is shown through multiple literary elements. However, Eliezer and

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    when one is placed in harsh, difficult situations. The victims of the Holocaust lived with this intense struggle to maintain faith to the worst extent. Elie Wiesel’s personal experience with the struggle to maintain faith is conveyed in his novel, Night. By looking at Elie Wiesel’s Night, one can see through the use of the motifs of eyes and night the struggle to maintain faith in cruel and trying situations, which is important because faith is part of what makes people who they are and losing it

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