Another example of this is in Elie Wiesel’s Night, which is a book based during the Holocaust, is about a boy and his journey for survival in a concentration camp. In the book, they have no reason to be doing the terrible things they do to the Jews other than they simply do not care about their well-being or even their life for that matter. In the story, Wiesel tells us about how on the train there was woman losing her mind and constantly screaming
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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
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Night – Elie Wiesel Chapter 5; Page 66: Religious Void and Defying Kipper. Jewish New Year coming to an end, Eli feels anger - questions whether there’s a god, why he would let them suffer so; rebellious. [“What are you, my God? How do you compare to this stricken mass gathered to affirm to you their faith, their anger, their defiance? What does your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery? Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s
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“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people” (Wiesel 81). If I was a Jew during this time, I would agree with this quote. Everything seemed hopeless and they felt betrayed by God. I believe that Hitler kept his promises to the Jews and payed more attention to them then God did during the Holocaust. Hitler ordered the Germans to occupy Jewish towns and issued various decrees to them. This happened in Elie’s small town of
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Holocaust. This book is important because it is a meaningful part of history and it was a very scary and tragic event. It is meaningful because so many people were killed just because they were Jews and that is not right. One good example is when Wiesel writes of everyone in the city getting taken out of their houses and brought to the camp because they were Jewish. They didn’t even know that they were on their way to be tortured and killed. (Weisel 11). I could not imagine ever being in
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Can literature help us remember the past? Night, Perils of Indifference, and Acceptance Speech all have things in common. They can connect to different themes and they connect to one another. Literature has a big part in this world and it helps us remember past events, just like the Holocaust. In Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech he says, “Who would allow such crime to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” This kinda ties back to theme 3 - breaking the silence on cruel acts is a way to
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1) SHOCK: "Delusion of reprieve": "The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last moment. We, too, clung to the shreds of hope and believed to the last moment that it would not be so bad." (p. 14) "An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior." (p. 30) "Disgust, horror and pity" were "emotions" one could "not really feel anymore. The sufferers, the dying and the dead, became such common place sights to him after
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did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves”(Wiesel, 11). The Germans started to take over the life of the Jews; they would tell them what they could and could not do. They did not have the right to go into frequent cafe’s, travel by rail, to attend synagogue, and they had to be in their houses before 6 o’clock in the evening. Elie saw the fear in everybody else, but he did not feel it himself.
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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
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thousands if not millions of Jewish men, women, and their children, including Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank. Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel both suffered badly, but had different outcomes. They have many similarities and differences. Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel have many similarities. Firstly, Elie was "not yet fifteen" when he and his family were arrested by Hungarian police and sent to a concentration camp (Wiesel 22). This shows that Elie was tortured at a young age. This is why he wanted to stay with his father
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