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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
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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Night
Elie Wiesel’s slightly fictionalized account of the years he spent in the most infamous German concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Night, was adapted from a much lengthier, unpublished...
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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
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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Night
Your question assumes a God who actively interferes with human history; that is a very questionable premise. Most philosophies and most religions take as a starting point the creation of Man with...
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Night
When Eliezer realizes that the Rabbi's son has indeed abandoned him, it is reflective of the lessons that Wiesel wants to instruct the reader about during the Holocaust. One particular lesson is...
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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
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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Dawn
One of Wiesel's strengths is that his characterization of Elisha is truly complex. He does not construct characters that are either "sinners" or "saints." Wiesel's view of human nature is complex...
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Night
This particular detail is one of the most gruesome details of the narrative. Certainly, the terror of the Nazis knows no boundaries. Yet, the discussion of the trafficking of children is...
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Night
At the beginning of the novel, Wiesel goes into great detail of his religious passion, even at a young age. He believed fervently in his faith, so much so that he wept regularly during prayer and...
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Night
In my mind, the question is focused on how the book explores political and personal forms of cruelty. Part of what makes the book so compelling is that it details how political cruelty and...
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The Zookeeper's Wife
One of the themes that most saliently represent the horrors that Antonia and Elie experience under the Nazi rule is the loss of the natural innocence of childhood. While this is a prevailing topic...
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Night
I think that Moshe would have to be described as someone who does not look as if there is an immediate command of respect. He is described as "physically awkward." I always envision him to look...
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Night
I think that the basic idea that Wiesel is trying to present through his work is the horrors intrinsic to the Holocaust. Wiesel illuminates the terror experienced in the Holocaust. In doing so,...
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Night
There were so many great questions featured. Regrettably, the question had to be edited down. I hope you are able to resubmit some, if not all of them, in the future. I think that the messages...
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Night
The Jews of Sighet chose to ignore signs that could have been viewed as warnings of approaching troubles because they didn't want to have to face the possible danger. The first specific event that...
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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
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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Night
I think that one of the most significant elements that arises from Moshe's idea of the many paths to spiritual truth is that it openly encourages a notion of the good where freedom to explore is...
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Night
At this juncture in his inclusion into the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel is contemplating his faith and the implications of humanity (or lack thereof) in light of what is happening...
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Night
I edited down the original question. I would suggest that Eliezer's motivation behind his refusal to pray is reflective of how his faith in the divine eroded as a result of his time in the camps....
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Night
In the fourth section of the text, Eliezer speaks of how his gold fillings needed to be extracted by the Nazi appointed dentist. This process itself is gruesome. Yet, it shows the extent to which...
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Night
I had to edit down the original question. I think that the significance of the discussions between Eliezer and Moishe the Beadle is that both are talking about the nature of being in the world....
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Night
Moshe the Beadle's response to being deported is an interesting one. While he is targeted and isolated, his response is quite communitarian, focusing on the larger good. Moshe pretends to be...
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Night
Regrettably, you can only post one question at a time. From the ones offered, I chose to explore the question regarding the Jewish prayer for the dead. I think that Wiesel's own words would be...
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Night
I would suggest that Eliezer's need to survive is external because the people that have placed him in the predicament in which he finds himself are out to kill him and others like him. The...
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Night
I think that Wiesel's work is so great because two of the most important characters are brought out in the first two chapters. The first would be Moshe the Beadle in Chapter 1, while Madame...
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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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Night
Part of why Elie Wiesel's work is so powerful is that he does not arbitrarily slap on a reflective ending to Eliezer's narrative. Rather, he enables the painful "silence" of the Holocaust to...
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Dawn
If Night was about Wiesel's struggle to exist in the Holocaust, Dawn could be seen about the struggle that exists in the post- Holocaust world. One common theme in both works is how one makes...
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Night
I think that the answer depends on which particular portions of the book one is addressing. At the start of the book, Eliezer took an interest in religious studies. He sought the spiritual...
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Night
The question is asking us to analyze what is seen in chapters 3, 4, 5 regarding the relationship between fathers and sons. In seeing these examples, what is noticed in terms of self- preservation...
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Night
I think that one particular prediction that can be made has to do with Eliezer's sense of spiritual identity. Wiesel opens the narrative with thorough detail as to how Eliezer crafts his spiritual...
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Night
The issue of a narrative's effectiveness will always be subjective. Yet, I think that Wiesel's use of the first person form is truly effective in conveying the subject matter for a couple of...
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Night
I find it difficult to narrow everything in the book down to one specific image. I also find this difficult because Wiesel places so many images in the book. There are so many mental pictures...
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Night
I think that the German girl who wipes blood away from Eliezer after he has been beaten can represent an example of courage from the narrative. It is a challenge to find anyone who represents the...
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Night
Thematically, both characters are linked to one another because they represent the dehumanization that served as the true horror of the Holocaust. Wiesel constructs his narrative to speak to the...
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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
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
Elie spends most of four months at Buchenwald. During that time his father dies from dysentery. Elie tells us that he felt and cared for nothing until April. It was in April that the front was...
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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
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...
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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
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
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....
