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Elie Wiesel
One critical way in which Moshe is important to both Eliezer and the people of Sighet is because of his symbolic meaning. He is both a man of religious faith as well as one of the first people to...
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Elie Wiesel
I believe you may have miscounted by one, and it is actually paragraphs 16-17 that can be seen to develop the central ideas of Wiesel's Night, as you suggest. I'll quote them, the two brief...
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Elie Wiesel
As the train arrives at Birkenau in chapter three of Ellie Wiesel’s memoir Night, the people on the train have to abandon their belongings. Ellie says that when they get off the train “the beloved...
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Elie Wiesel
He wanted to convey that indifference is worse than hate or anger. One could be angry at injustice or hate evil, violent acts. Indifference is the absence of compassion and implies something worse...
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Elie Wiesel
This is a speculation answer, but we can use the text of Night to determine some possible explanations for what would have happened if the dentist hadn’t kept the gold. In Night, Elie is told to...
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Elie Wiesel
Near the end of Night, Elie Wiesel realizes that the lines of battle are approaching Buchenwald. The SS prepares one last effort at resistance: The battle did not last long. Toward noon everything...
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Elie Wiesel
In Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates that people more often find themselves compelled to help others when they form relationships with them. When he works at the warehouse, Elie is paired with a girl...
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Elie Wiesel
What Elie Wiesel is saying here is that it is better to have someone (in this case God) care about you and be present than to have them not care. This is true, he says, even if God is unjust. So...
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Elie Wiesel
In Night, Elie Wiesel recounts a nightmare of reality which is not merely his own experience as a Holocaust survivor, but is in some ways symbolic of all human suffering, especially that of other...
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Elie Wiesel
The original question had to be edited down. I would say that the base subject matter of Wiesel's speech is the how the ethical position of indifference is tantamount to perpetrating cruelty....
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Elie Wiesel
The original question had to be edited. I invite you to resubmit the second question in another question. Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize speech stresses the need to overcome indifference. For...
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Elie Wiesel
Elie had been in the hospital because of a foot infection. He had been operated on and was recovering when orders came for all of the Jews to be transferred to another camp. Elie chose to go with...
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Elie Wiesel
Family is something that most people have experience with and strong feelings about. Even if we have disagreements or suffer hardships with our parents, grandparents, and siblings, we are bound to...
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was summoned to the dentist in Night because he had a gold crown on one of his teeth. Today most crowns are made out of porcelain, but during Wiesel's time, crowns were made from gold....
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Elie Wiesel
In Night, Elie Wiesel tells of arriving at Auschwitz, a concentration camp. Initially, Elie was happy to be able to stay with his father, but his happiness quickly turns to fear and dread when one...
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Elie Wiesel
When Moshe is deported, he is witness to the true horror of the Nazis. He understands, probably before anyone else in Sighet, what "the Final Solution" really entails. There can be no denial in...
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Elie Wiesel
The original question had to be edited down. I think that the audience Wiesel is addressing in his speech is a unique mix of individuals. On one hand, Wiesel is clearly mindful that part of his...
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Elie Wiesel
Wiesel draws upon his own experience as a survivor at Buchenwald, one of the Nazi death camps, to prove the argument that American indifference endangers the entire world. He makes the valid...
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Elie Wiesel
In chapter six of "Night," we find the Jews on a forced march in the snow. The SS made all of the prisoners increase their speed. They were running and some of them couldn't keep up. If they...
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel is a survivor the greatest of mass murder in history, the Holocaust. As a young man, he was sent to the most notorious concentration camps run by Nazi Germany, Buchenwald and...
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Elie Wiesel
Imagine what people had to endure and survive during the Holocaust - the things they had witnessed, the losses they had suffered and often before their own eyes, the long term physical and...
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Elie Wiesel
I think one has to. To quote Martin Luther King, Jr., "an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." There can be no time where we decide, no, I am not going to help out; I am just...
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Elie Wiesel
I think that the arguments presented in Wiesel's speech are highly logical and force democratic societies that stand for freedom and tolerance to examine their own policies and predispositions....
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was 15-years-old when he was imprisoned in and eventually liberated from German concentration camps. He has subsequently spent the next 70 years with one main mission: warning the rest...
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Elie Wiesel
Eliezer, like all the other prisoners, is forced to witness many atrocities in the camp, including many hangings. But one in particular has a profound effect upon him. One day, a young assistant of...
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Elie Wiesel
I believe that Elie Wiesel always shows bias and does in this speech The Perils of Indifference as well. His bias is that the world and its people should not be indifferent to the suffering of the...
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Elie Wiesel
The thought of losing his father is of utmost importance in Elie's mind during the disastrous march from Buna to Birkenau. The prisoners are forced to essentially run 42 miles in the freezing snow,...
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Elie Wiesel
Wiesel's narrative power is based on the honest, direct way he describes his feelings and reactions: in Night, he narrates the events with total objectivity but still does so emotionally. In his...
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Elie Wiesel
Wiesel does not focus his work and writing exclusively on the relationship between fathers and sons. His advocacy for greater understanding of the Holocaust is more general in scope. Wiesel's...
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Elie Wiesel
Auschwitz, Dacchau and Buchenwald were "death" camps or "extermination" camps. The main reason a prisoner was sent to one of these camps was for extermination. Zyklon-B gas was the cheapest, most...
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Elie Wiesel
In September of 1979, referring to the Holocaust Museum, (Wiesel was the first chair of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council), Eli Wiesel spoke about the relevance of remembering the past so as to...
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. He spent two years in a refugee home in France, during which time he learned French and developed an interest in...
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Elie Wiesel
Wiesel has served as the moral conscious of the world in regard to genocide and silence since being liberated from the camp and "seeing a corpse stare back at me." He emerged as a journalist and...
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Elie Wiesel
Elie spent some time in an orphanage shortly after his liberation. Afterwards, he attended school in France and eventually found out that his two older sisters had survived the concentration...
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Elie Wiesel
One of Wiesel's strengths is that his work operates as both historical, but also ethical. Wiesel's work is dedicated to the proposition that human beings have a role in impacting the lives of...
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Elie Wiesel
Unfortunately, things like this have been with us for at least six thousand years. Just since the end of the Soviet Union there have been multiple incidents in the Balkans, where such massacres...
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Elie Wiesel
The purpose for most of the medical experiementation done on live humans was three-fold. The first order of business was to use science and technology to create a "superior Arian race". There were...
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Elie Wiesel
In his speech, Elie Wiesel is trying to persuade people that they need to care more about other people. He is saying that they have to stop being indifferent about the terrible things that happen...