...George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That means people should learn about our past history, even if it was really tragic. After I read the article,”I Remember Night:Remembering Elie Wiesel”, I noticed that the author, Clementine Wamariya, is an example of how learning about the past can help us prevent a tragic future. She became an activist because she wanted to make a change. I might be a kid, but I understand that we need to learn about the past, even if it was bad. This is why I want you to keep Night on the list of approved books. We need books like Night so we can learn about the horrors of the past. For example, in paragraph 2 it says, “Our lives changed when.Genocide broke out in our...
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...Dear Governor Abbott: Clemantine Wamariya, the author of “I Remember Night: In Remembrance of Elie Wiesel, wrote that ”Night” had changed her life forever. Reading Night can galvanize a change in someone to not keep to themselves anymore. As she says, “his words could reverberate across time and culture.” (Par. 1) Clementine went through some pretty harsh stuff as a child, but when reading this book her teacher had shown them, it changed her life forever. The book “Night” is a way of showing kids to speak out and showing them the reality of stuff and not holding back, and I believe if you ban this book kids will never really know the true horrors of the Holocaust. Learning can really change a child's life vastly, and so history may never...
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...Dear Governor Abbot, Genocide means to attack or want to demolish a certain group of people/area. “I Remember Night, Remembering Elie Wiesel” written by Clemative Wamariya, does a great job of showing just how important it is to learn about the Holocaust and genocides around the world. Although some parts may be graphic, it’s important to acknowledge these events because they shouldn’t repeat themselves. As a proponent, the book Night shouldn’t be banned because it exemplifies what a genocide is. Allowing Night to be read along with learning about genocides will have a better chance of it not being repeated again. For example, Wamariya wrote, “what I call noise, others call genocide” (par. 2). 2). The adage of the adage. This emphasizes that...
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...During the Holocaust, over 6,000,000 people were killed; most of them were Jews. “Night” by Elie Wiesel explains Elie’s point of view throughout the Holocaust. It begins with everything being normal in Sighet, Transylvania, and shifts to his hardships in three concentration camps, the first of which is Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor who grew up to write over forty-five books. He even won the Nobel Peace Prize for his book “Night.” In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book by losing his faith in God, affecting him psychologically, and by losing faith in humanity. To start off, Elie Wiesel gradually lost his faith in God throughout “Night”. At the beginning of the book, he was studying the Zohar with Moishe the Beadle. During that time, he writes, “Thus began my initiation. Together we would read, over and over again, the same page of the Zohar… And in the...
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...Would you ignore if six million people were assassinated? The historical background of Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, has experienced such a significant event. Wiesel is an Auschwitz survivor and his memoir, Night, reflects the society and the beliefs of its time. A controversy about this work is that some people believe the Holocaust never happened and as a result regard the book as false. However, this novel was important at the time it was written, because it was a time when people didn‘t believe in the Holocaust. In addition, Elie Wiesel’s background is essential to the Holocaust’s memory, because it deals with the Nazi’s genocide. The author of Night, who is also the protagonist of the book, shows how delusion and rumors spread false hopes and lies throughout the camp. The author also showed how Hitler’s belief that other races were inferior and didn’t deserve to live led to Hitler’ rise to power. Wiesel’s story is crucial to that time-period since it shows his perseverance through multiple concentration camps and the loss of close family members....
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...In reference to his experience during the Holocaust and why he wrote night, author Elie Wiesel says without the experience he would have not become "… 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 ). The Holocaust is a memorable event that occurred in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1933 threw 1945. This tragedy was runned by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, killing a massive amount of Jews, homosexuals, Catholics, poles, and gypsies. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were responsible for economic struggles also known as the great depression. Many people also believed they were to blame for the loss of war. In the...
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...why is that he thought the Jewish people were going to be a problem. Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor and he wrote the noble peace prize book "Night". In the book Night, Elie first doesn't have such a strong relationship with his father he does not show his affections to his family In page 4 in night Wiesel says "My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feeling even within his family, and was more involved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kind". So they don't really have a strong relationship but later on in the story when they were in the...
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...“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” is one of the many influential quotes Elie Wiesel has stated. Elie Wiesel is a nobel peace prize winner and has written dozens of fiction and nonfiction, addressing and crusaded against abuse and intolerance around the world inspired by his dreadful times in the Holocaust, including “Night”. In the book, Elie was only 15 when he and his family were taken and separated in Auschwitz because they were Jews. Throughout Auschwitz Elie experiences many horrid events that forever changed and shaped him into who he is today. and In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was effected by the events in the book because he lost his faith, gave up on humanity, and was physiological changed. Throughout Elie’s experiences during his time spent at Auschwitz, he started to lose his faith in God. Elie started to rebel and question God. Elie Wiesel stated in the text “Why, but why would I bless him? Every fiber in me rebelled” (Page 67). Elie clearly had lost his faith. The thought of rebelling occurred after so many people died having no power. “He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves?...Kept six crematoria working day and night… had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many factories of death?” Elie also implies on page 67. Elie had heart-provoking thoughts occuring on how people could never worship the Lord and believe...
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...Elie’s Faith Throughout His Life Elie Wiesel’s Night tells the haunting tale of a young man being turned into an animal because of his religion. Elie was a passionate teen boy who was devoted to Judaism living in Czechoslovakia. But soon, Nazi Germany begins the Final Solution, a meticulous plan to eradicate all Jews and any other unorthodox humans in Europe. Thus, Elie and his family is transported to the concentration camp, Auschwitz. He faces the horrors of the camp, and his faith begins to waver as he and God watch innocent lives being stripped away. Throughout the book, Elie is constantly battling his devotion to God, changing from the faithful teen in the beginning to the animalistic man who hated his god and back to a man who was able to regain his faith. Eliezer was extremely devoted in his religious studies in the beginning, almost as if all his trust and hope went into God. He had a fiery passion to pursue and study the ancient, holy texts of his people, keeping his faith close to his heart. He spent his time either studying or staying at a place of worship. Elie began at the early age of twelve, saying that “I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue...
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...million Jews by the Nazi command during World War II. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, he states, “…in their early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed” (viii). The shock and horror does not lessen regardless of how many times a book or article is read or a movie watched about the Holocaust. Learning about the horrible, dark period from 1935 – 1945 is important in several ways. On one hand, it has been said we must learn about the past in order not to relive it. However, we are also told not to dwell in the past. When studying the Holocaust, both adages have truth. Chilling questions occur when learning about the Holocaust. They are questions that Elie Wiesel repeated in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Wiesel says he remembers asking his father, “Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” (118). Millions of Jews were killed by overwork, starvation, torture, and cold blooded murder just because they were a different race and religion. Wiesel urges readers not to forget. Wiesel states, “To forget would not be only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time”(xv). Wiesel later states, “What I do know is that there is ‘response’ in responsibility...
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...acceptable way to create a healthy and sustainable relationship, but to what extent does telling the truth become harmful in a relationship? In the memoir Night written by Elie Wiesel and in the movie Life is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni, both father and son Shlomo and Elie, and Guido and Joshua get sent off to a concentration camp due to the heinous matter of discrimination. The father-son relationship in Night differs from the father-son relationship in Life is Beautiful by how each of the fathers deal with the truth which ultimately distinguishes between a healthy...
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...Gabby Rubin Mrs Cardell English 10 19 March 2024 Why I write: Making No Become Yes Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He was 12 when it first started happening. Elie and his family had to run and then his mom and sister died. And then it was just him and his dad and they did everything together. Elie knew this story had to be told about the Holocaust. It was still very hard for him to tell. Another reason he says he writes is to not go mad. I think what Eli meant by this was that it was very hard for him to talk about this. Because it brings back lots of memories. First he remembers the scary nights and being sick and hungry all the time, being scared and feeling lost. He thought that he would never be able to talk about this. I think what...
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...Review of “Night” Marcie Mills In 1944 Europe, Elie Weisel and his family are forced into a concentration camp because they are Jewish. When they arrive, Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sisters. As this is happening, he sees Jews that were gassed being thrown into burning mass graves. A Jew's daily ration was a small bowl of thin soup and a small piece of bread. The Jews are forced to run from camp to camp naked; being shot if they stop or slow down. Elie's father gets sick and Elie shares his ration to keep his father alive. Will Elie ever see his mother and sisters again? Will Elie get out alive? The author engages the reader by making them feel like Elie or another Jew. You, the reader, feel like you are in the story. You get mad when Elie's father gets beaten and you feel how hungry they must be. Elie piques the interest of the readers by writing about all the crazy and difficult things he did to stay alive as a Jew during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis came for the 15,000 Jews of his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in May 1944. Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, his mother and sister were murdered within hours, while he was put to work as a slave labourer. Eight months later, the Germans evacuated the camp and forced the survivors on a death march that ended at Buchenwald. Wiesel was one of the few still alive when the Americans arrived in April 1945. This is written a style that seems to be typical of many modern Israeli novelists;...
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...People who are religious are close with God and deny questioning His Being. Wiesel was one of the Jews who survived the Holocaust during World War ll. Wiesel’s identity of God changed during his experience in Auschwitz due to the harsh conditions faced. In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel the major theme throughout the whole story is that people struggle to maintain any sort of faith in god when faced with extreme struggles. The greatest change to Elie Wiesel’s identity was his loss of faith in God. Before leaving with his family to the camps, Elie was very religious person he would cry after praying at night. When the German police came to take the Jews to the ghettos, they pulled Elie from his prayer. Elie thanks God when he was told he is...
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...According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of conflict is a mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands ”(Merriam-Webster) Victims of the German Concentration Camps had positive attitudes towards conflict. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel a young boy who had a positive attitude towards conflict. Keeping a positive attitude helps you in any situation. There were some personal letters from Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of Japanese American Incarceration During World War Ⅱand a Librarian Who Made a Difference that show why being positive can help you later in life. It is best to have a positive reaction towards conflict in time of war. First, Louise Ogawa is one person...
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