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The Jewish prisoners have been on-board a train, crammed in crowded cars, with no food for over 10 days. They are starving and dying rapidly. When the train stops briefly some workers throw some...
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I think that anyone reading this concentration camp account must be struck by the intense surreality of what is being narrated. It is just so unbelievable and horrid and so far from our experiences...
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In Chapter 1, Moishe the Beadle is expelled from the village of Sighet and crammed into a cattle car by the Hungarian police because he is a foreigner. After a few months had gone by, Moishe the...
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Any reaction to a piece of literature is always personal, so that part of the question cannot be answered here. However, the format of the two stories does make a difference. Maus is a graphic...
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Elie Wiesel, in his novel Night, is very open and honest about his relationship with his father during their time in Auschwitz. IN the beginning, Elie refuses to leave his father's side. He...
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You could approach this from a couple of angles. First, Wiesel struggles with his faith throughout his time in the camps. When he sees the injustice and inhumanity that humans subject each other...
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The consumption of soup in this particular portion of the narrative is powerful. It is a good detailing of how the true horror of the Holocaust was its dehumanization. In the first instance of...
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The fact that Elie Wiesel survived his ordeal of being sent to the ghettos and then various concentration camps seems to be mere luck. Wiesel answers this very question in the "Preface to the New...
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I would argue that hatred is one of the most important themes in this harrowing novel. Every chapter is peppered with stories of unkindness and brutality that is suffered by the Jews as well as...
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Moshe the Beadle returns from the deportation to warn the people of his village and tell them what is really happening. His horror stories of deprivation, killing, taking away everything you own...
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Fire is traditionally used as a symbol of evil and destruction. It's therefore a particularly appropriate symbol for the Nazis, the living embodiment of evil in its basest and most destructive...
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This is a good question. Here is a little context. When Elie, his father, and the other prisoners came into the barrack of the camp that they were staying, a gypsy was in charge. He gave permission...
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In Night by Elie Wiesel, Moshe the Beadle is taken along with other foreign Jews by the Nazis before the other residents are rounded up for the camps. Moshe manages to escape and makes his way back...
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Wiesel weaves the physical object of bread symbolically through the entire memoir. At the end of chapter 1, when the Jews are loaded into the train cars for deportation, Elie recalls, "They handed...
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Elie Wiesel's harrowing personal account of life in the concentration camps is a prime illustration of man's inhumanity to man. At no point in the story is he, or any other of the Jews with whom...
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Religion takes centre stage early in this book, when Elie Wiesel meets Moshe the Bode. This takes place in 1941, which is three years before the main action of this book begins. Under Moshe's...
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One of the predominant themes in the story Night by Elie Wiesel concerns faith in God and one's religion. Before Elie experiences the horrors of the Holocaust, he is a devout Jew, who spends the...
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Although several themes could be applied to the complexities of Night, one of Wiesel's focuses is the innate drive for individual survival above all emotions and relationships in life-or-death...
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Many people find it hard to believe when something bad is coming their way, and Moshe the Beadle personifies a theme of unheeded warnings. While it is unclear how things may have worked out...
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In Night by Elie Wiesel, the author’s view on hope is that it continues despite the horrors to which he has been subjected. He cannot stifle his hope. Each time something arises that makes him...
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Chapter one of Night provides an essential aspect to the memoir's poignancy because it uses such clear descriptions and images of Elie Wiesel's life before the Holocaust. Specifically, chapter one...
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In Night, Elie Wiesel does discuss both hope and adversity. However, the concepts appear at different stages of the memoir, revealing hope in chapter one as the false belief that Elie and the other...
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Moshe the Beadle is the first character we meet in Night by Elie Wiesel. He is a very religious man--poor but also very intelligent. Moshe is very well liked by the people of his town, Sighet,...
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Elie describes himself as a starved or famished stomach because he's permanently hungry. This is because the Germans deliberately don't give the camp inmates enough to eat. As a result, hunger is...
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Near the end of chapter 4, Elie Wiesel recalls the time his group returned from work to find three gallows awaiting them. This hanging is different than most, which have become so commonplace that...
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Simply put, war, totalitarianism and dictatorship lead to broken families, destroyed lives and misery. For me, Eliezer's story means that as an independent nation, we have the ongoing...
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In Elie Wiesel's Night, Elie, along with tens of thousands of unnamed prisoners, endure terrible conditions at the concentration camps. Life there is the ultimate struggle for survival. One’s...
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Although you may not find the word "pipel" in a standard English dictionary, you can get a sense of what it means from the novel Night: In his "service" was a young boy, a pipel, as they were...
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On the surface, Moishe and Madame Schacter are very different people. Madame Schacter is a middle-aged woman, married with sons. She is a resident of Sighet, and one assumes (as we find that many...
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Eliezer is a 12-year-old boy at the start of the story. He lives in Sighet with his family. He is the only son; he has three sisters, two older (Hilda and Bea) and one younger (Tzipora). At the...
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One of Wiesel's strengths in Night is to show the full face of dehumanization. It is something that the Nazis perpetrated against the people they imprisoned. The tattooing of numbers on the...
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Once Elie, his father, and the other Jewish prisoners arrive at Birkenau, the men and woman are separated into two lines: this is the last time Elie sees his mother and sister. After watching his...
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At the beginning of Night, the author describes the evenings he spent in study with Moishe the Beadle, in which he seemed to be discovering "the very essence of divinity." He writes: And in the...
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Immediately after arriving at Auschwitz, Elie, his father, and the other Jewish prisoners are divided by gender into two different lines. Elie does not even have enough time to say goodbye to his...
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In Night by Elie Wiesel, after arriving at Buna, Elie and his father were sent to a warehouse to work. Their kapo, Idek, wass known for having frenetical fits, and nobody was safe when he was in...
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The primary antagonists in Elie Wiesel's Night are Hitler and the agents of his oppressive, anti-Semitic Nazi regime. The antagonists include the Hungarian police officers working with the Nazis,...
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The title of Elie Wiesel's book Night is no accident, as night is used symbolically throughout the story. Night, of course, is dark, and its use in this story is no accident' it represents the loss...
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The conditions that the Jews experience on the train journey are deplorable. The people are treated worse than animals, and they are crammed tightly into the train cars. People die while aboard,...
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This quote is found near the very end of Wiesel's preface to Night. Just before this, he has explained that sharing memories is vital because relating the consequences of such a tremendous loss is...
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In order to fully appreciate this quote, it's important to examine it in its full context. This quote appears in the preface, written by Wiesel, and he explains that when he first tried to share...
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Chapter two largely deals with the Jews being transported via train to Auschwitz. The chapter is largely concerned with the falling away of normalcy. Teenagers begin to flirt and caress one another...
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In the Preface of Night, Elie Weisel writes that each Holocaust survivor has the duty to bear witness for the dead and the living by testifying to the unimaginable atrocities they endured on behalf...
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When Wiesel writes that "Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow," he lends a lot of complexity to what initially seems like a...
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In Elie Wiesel's classic novel Night, he recounts his harrowing experience surviving the Holocaust and provides readers with an in-depth look into the unimaginable horrors he endured in the Nazi...
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At the beginning of the novel, Eliezer explains how he was devoted to worshipping God and fully understanding the Jewish religion. When Eliezer was thirteen years old, he asked his father to teach...
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One of the warning signs comes from Moshe the Beadle, who is a rabbi Wiesel spends a great deal of time with. Wiesel adopts the man as a religious mentor, and the two tackle meaningful questions of...
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The first sign that trouble is on the horizon is when all the foreign Jews are expelled from Sighet. One of these Jews is Moishe the Beadle, a religious eccentric much loved by Elie and the...
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Night and Farewell to Manzanar are two memoirs written by individuals persecuted during the Second World War. For an American, it is eerie to see the similarities between a concentration camp like...
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Meir Katz is described as a "colossus", a real mountain of a man. Despite his enormous physical strength, he too must suffer along with the other Jewish inmates of the Buna concentration camp. Even...
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Probably the most significant thing about Moishe is that Eliezer bonds with him over spiritual matters. No one else in Sighet fulfills this role for him. Though Moishe is merely the...
