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    Elie Wiesel

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    Creative Title A time where people were forced to leave their homes and everything they had in possession. This is something that happens to Elie Wiesel author and main character of NIGHT. Elie and his family are from jewish descent and are dehumanized by the Germans and forced into labour camps to work. They never knew what dangers they had ahead of them always having ignorance only to face the consequences. To lose and to have everything only to be gone in a second never to be returned. Throughout

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    Elie Wiesel

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    This odd morally gray story begins with Elie wiesel, the main character of the book as a 12 year old living in a town of Sighet. He resides in a in an orthodox jewish family that follows jewish laws and traditions to the tee. His parents are shopkeepers and his dad is a higher up in within Sighet’s jewish community. Elie has 3 sisters, two older, and one younger. What sets Elie apart from almost all Jewish teens at the time is his unusual studies of the Talmud, or jewish law. Followed by the caballa

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    Night By Elie Wiesel

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    Elie Wiesel in Night is innocent, desperate, and numb. Overall, Wiesel is left broken. Night was written by Elie Wiesel and the book is about his personal experience about being a victim of the Holocaust. Wisel was very young when he went through the Holocaust. Wiesel's family and friends perished during the holocaust and so did his innocence. In the book Wiesel says,” My eyes opened and I saw that I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy.” Wiesel is 15

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    Elie Wiesel Reflection

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    Title Elie Wiesel changed in many ways throughout the story. He changed spiritually, physically, and emotionally. The experiences he had to live through were extremely difficult to deal with as an impressionable teenager. The holocaust was gruesome enough for an adult with a strong body and ample understanding of the world but for a child the horrors were only amplified. The pain Wiesel endured changed his views on the things he held sacred, it changed his physical body, and his mental state.

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    The Night By Elie Wiesel

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    understand how deeply literal and symbolic the book entitled Night by Elie Wiesel is. The novel brings light to the reader about what the Jews faced while in the fire, hell and night; nonetheless, the author portrays each and every day during this year as a night in hell of conflagration. "Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes." (Wiesel 20). When Wiesel arrived at the camp he counted the longest dreadful ten steps of his

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    Elie Wiesel Metaphor

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    Writing Task One Elie Wiesel uses metaphor, connotative language, and metaphor to demonstrate that dehumanization ultimately causes negative mental and physical changes in the victim. Metaphor demonstrates that dehumanization causes them to lose their emotions. Metaphor “these withered bodies had long forgotten the bitter taste of tears” ( Wiesel pg. 63) Elie Wiesel uses this quotation to demonstrate that they completely forgot how to cry. The use of the phrase “bitter taste of tears” implies

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    authors are trying to persuade, authors create these emotions because their audience is more likely to accept their argument and want to bring change if they are emotionally invested in something. One particular author that is very good at this is Elie Wiesel. In his speech, “Perlis of Indifference,” he describes his experience during the holocaust. He is able to evoke emotions of remorse, and guilt from the audience by telling his story with vivid details, and sharing his definition of indifference with

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    the world. Night is an in depth account of the atrocities committed in these horrible places. The story of dehumanization of an entire group of people through the eyes of a young boy,Elie Wiesel. In Night Wiesel portrays the dehumanization of the jewish people as unnatural and undeserved. The difficulties Wiesel went through are all collected in one small book The Jews all started the same before they began their journey through the camps. They were normal; they had their own communities,religion

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    Elie Wiesel Reflection

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    memoir of much of Elie Wiesel’s childhood. When Wiesel was young he was very devoted to his Religion, asking questions and reading scripture. When the trains were loaded Wiesel no longer had the words to express his disdain. After setting foot in Auschwitz Wiesel felt abandoned by god and no longer believed God was not righteous. Rightful decision he watched children burn, men get shot, women disappear to never return. Despite all this Wiesel never truly lost his religion explaining “I was not

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    Elie Wiesel Quotes

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    victims of the Holocaust had. One of the first impactful quotes is when Wiesel writes about his first night in Auschwitz, stating “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes,” (34). He’s speaking about how everything changed when he arrived at the camp. Where he was once carefree, he now had a burden. Where he once had faith, he now had a God who didn’t care whether Wiesel and his people lived or died. He’s not only speaking for every person,

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