In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the narrator describes how he struggled to survive in numerous concentration camps during the Holocaust. Eliezer changes throughout the text from a religious to an unemotional, lifeless being; the dehumanization he endured in the camps caused him to lose his childhood. Elie Wiesel uses simile, personification, and metaphor to demonstrate the effects of dehumanization. Wiesel uses simile to demonstrate that dehumanization causes people to act like animals. For example
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It is believed that somewhere around 1,700,000 people died as an effect of the Crusades. The Crusades were a set of wars, between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all fighting to gain control of the Holy land. Many people have argued on whether the Crusades were beneficial or not. However, the Crusades, overall were not beneficial for human history, They did not accomplish anything, killed way too many people and started the spread of a deadly plague. To start off, the Crusades were pointless
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie went through many mental and physical tough times during his time in {what camp?} the camp. Survival and faith really played a huge role in his pursuit to live. Human’s most basic need is human survival and when that need is not met, it is the first thing that motivates behavior.The horrific events portrayed in Night reveal Loss of faith and survival as priority. Through the experiences of Elie and his father who are limited to motivations of basic physiological
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Morris Kornberg Morris Kornberg was a Jew and was the youngest of 6 children. His family owned a business that supplied raw metal materials. Morris grew up in a very religious Jewish household and was active in a Zionist sport league. When his place got attacked by Germany him and his family retreated to the woods. Morris's town was severely damaged. When Germany found him and his family they were deported to Auschwitz in 1941. He had felt everything they have done to him since he was a kid. All
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The Belief and Denial of the Holocaust Between 1933 and 1945, an event took place that would greatly affect the world forever. Jews, homosexuals, and even Jehovah’s Witnesses were stripped of their rights, mistreated continuously, and forced to complete hard manual labor. This horrendous event led by Adolf Hitler is known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was an event in which “Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered”
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read your book, The Diary of Anne Frank, I thought the world I lived in was flawless. Not only flawless but perfect in every way I imagined. It is natural for children to be sheltered from the terrors outside this illusion of an ideal world. Children were raised this way and schools censored this kind of information. I was one of these children: oblivious and carefree to the horrors of the past and future. The Diary of Anne Frank opened my eyes to the reality of the world we lived in. What I thought
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sealed cattle car.The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” (Weisel). The holocaust in 1940 was a tragedy, were Jews were taking out of their homes to Ghettos, concentration camps, and mass killings. But Jews tried their best to keep their humanity by spiritually and armed resistasting. During the Holocaust, Jews used armed and unarmed forms of resistance in order to retain their humanity. Armed resistance in ghettos was common, Jews went
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The first outright discriminatory laws against Jewish people came in 1933. These laws stated Jews could not hold a position in any branch of government and they were allowed no admission to universities. In the coming years, these anti-Semitic laws grew in their absurdity, exponentially. Jews were deprived of their citizenship, more and more job opportunities were taken away, they were not allow to own a vehicle, denied admission to public schools, and stripped of their property. All of these
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In today’s world, one needs to be mindful of sources s/he gathers. Now, with modern technology, it is even easier to misstate or fabricate mistruths and therefore tip the scales of fairness. An example of that is seen in the quote below: "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong
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“Faith isn't a feeling. It’s a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain” -Dave Willis The struggle of leaving God behind come into the minds and hearts of prisoners during the Holocaust. In Night by Elie Wiesel, a young boy, Elie, finds himself in the exact situation when Elie and his father are separated from the rest of the family and put in the concentration camps. There, they are treated like animals, the cruel treatment is excruciating and hard to handle, but Elie makes
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