Night’s Brutish Theme and its Effect on Eliezer In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, the atrocities and cruel treatment can make good people into brutes, however Eliezer escapes this fate and he is able to retain his goodness through the end of the story. Eliezer is the main character who starts out in the novel as a very devout Jew living in Sighet, Transylvania at the beginning of World War Two. As the years progress in the war, Eliezer and the Jews are taken from their homes and either put in
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horrific events in human history, one was to be found very lucky to have survived such torture and tragedy, if they survivored. One survivor of the Holocaust was a little 15 year old boy named Elie Wiesel, writer of the book Night, of which has to do with his experiences during the Holocaust. In Night, Elie describes just how dark and evil the Holocaust truly was using tragedy, symbolism and tone in his writing. Whomever you
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What enthrals me about History is that it is an integral part of society today. I am captivated by the way in which it interconnects events through time, and irradiates the legacies of the past in the present. A recent trip to Auschwitz, Birkenau gave me great insight into the impact of the atrocities which took place there. On a wall in Auschwitz I, philosopher George Santayana’s quote struck me. It read ‘the one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again’. Inspired by this
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“To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame.” (Zusak 208) Max Vandenburg, the Jew that resided in the basement of 33 Himmel Street, had a rough life growing up in a country where being a Jew almost guaranteed persecution. His family pushed him out of the house when a Nazi soldier came to their house. Max felt guilt and shame for not going staying with his family and for becoming a burden to others, such as Walter and the Hubermanns. Max felt like he was being selfish by leaving other
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Evil in the World Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference”, argues that indifference is a punishment to the victims and dangerous to the world because the “lines blur” between “good and evil.” He supports his claim by first stating what indifference is which is when the “lines blur” between right and wrong, then Wiesel questions indifference and how someone could possibly see it as a “virtue.” Finally, he explains how indifference could seem easier to some even though
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Throughout the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, a novel about Elie’s first hand experience during the Holocaust, have many examples of poignancy. For example, family separation and fear. On page eighty one, in lines six - twenty three, it shows Elie’s father’s death, as an example of family separation. Also, on page forty two, in lines twenty five - forty, it shows Elie getting beat by Idek, the Kapo, as an example of fear. First of all, on page eighty one, lines six - twenty three, Elie’s father’s
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oppress means to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints, or to be subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power. Someone who takes on these actions is called an oppressor. In other words this person is called a bully. Elie Wiesel made the comment, “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Even if the problem is someone else’s true faith should convict someone to do the right thing. “Take sides”
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Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie explains how he saw inhumanity when he was at the concentration camps and being tortured by the german soldiers he says, “In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued”(Wiesel 101). In the wagon where the bread was the jews were fighting like they were animals for a piece of bread a worker had thrown into the wagon. The worker was watching them fight for the piece of bread with great interest. People responded to inhumanity by losing faith in God. Elie is starting
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In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, the reader discovers the bond that Elie has with his father, Schlomo, during the Holocaust. Having each other during the Holocaust, they can protect each other mentally, physically and emotionally. Father-son relationships are a strong bond, and experiencing such painful situations together can strengthen the connection. Elie and his father’s relationship changes immensely, as we see the difference in their relationship from before the camp, in the camp and when
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concentration camps, but some of them lived to tell the tale. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel describes the rough tragedies he’s been through and the sorrow he encountered during the Holocaust. Before the Holocaust, Elie lived a normal life with his family and friends who he loved dearly. He believes strongly in his faith and he has a daily routine like most teenagers do nowadays. While inside the concentration camps, Elie struggles with a constant battle of survival and tries to keep his father alive
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