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Night
Throughout the novel, Elie struggles to retain his humanity in the face of nearly insurmountable hardship. His outlook on life, faith, and humanity completely changes as he describes the horrors of...
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Night
Elie and his father endure several "selections" during the course of their ordeal in Nazi concentration camps during World War I. A selection made the difference between life and death. In the...
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One way that Eliezer changes from a boy to a man is seen in his relationship with his father. At the start of the narrative, Eliezer has a traditional relationship with his father. Chlomo is a...
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In the world of the Holocaust that Wiesel depicts in Night, chance and choice play vital roles in a person's survival. One of the reasons why Night is so powerful is because it shows the...
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At the beginning of the novel, Eliezer mentions that he devoted his life to understanding the Talmud and studying Kabbalah while living in Sighet. Eliezer says that by day he would study the Talmud...
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Night
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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In Chapter 5, Eliezer and his father are forced to go through the first selection process. Eliezer takes off his clothes and sprints in front of the SS guards. Eliezer passes the selection process...
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In the book, Elie and his father are tattooed with numbers by "veteran prisoners." Elie writes that the number A-7713 is tattooed onto his left arm and that from that moment on, he is no longer...
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When Elie and his father arrived at Buchenwald, they were all weak, tired and emaciated. A siren at the camp made Elie forget his father, and instead he rushed into the barracks with the mob. In...
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In Chapter 8, Eliezer and his father arrive Buchenwald. Throughout the chapter, Eliezer's father gets weaker each day until he is unable to move. Despite his father's declining physical condition,...
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In Night, cultural understanding in the form of religion is essential to Eliezer's growth within the Jewish community. Night highlights the important role that religion plays in the Jewish...
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The influence of individuals on society is a major theme throughout Night, by author Elie Wiesel. The author gives his own account of his imprisonment at the hands of the Nazis and his experience...
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Eli Wiesel tells us in an interview that he wrote Night partly to speak for the dead, and for the survivors who could not speak of the atrocities. He told the story of his survival experience with...
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Moishe the Beadle was a foreigner and a poor member of Eliezer's community in Sighet. He was one of the first people to witness the Nazi atrocities in Hungary after he was deported and miraculously...
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At the beginning of the novel, Eliezer is a very religious young boy with dreams of one day learning Jewish mysticism known as Cabala. He enjoys his carefree life in Sighet where his father is a...
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One quote that describes the ways in which the Jews in Sighet were blind to the atrocities that the Nazis had in store for them was their response to what Moishe the Beadle tells them. When he is...
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Eliezer's first impression of Auschwitz was that it was better than Birkenau. Witnessing the massive amount of killing in Birkenau was Eliezer's introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust. He...
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Eliezer, the protagonist who is based on Wiesel himself, faces many struggles throughout Night. The most obvious struggle is external: the need to survive. However, the struggle that is first set...
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Photographs and newsreel footage detailing the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II reveal scores of skeletal looking human beings who were systematically starved...
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When Moishe returns to Sighet with stories of the Nazi brutality he witnessed and experienced firsthand, the Jews do not believe him. "They think I'm mad," he tells Elie (page 7). After foreigners...
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Despite the fact that his father is often a burden to Elie, the older man's presence in the camps is one of the major reasons why Elie ultimately survived. Throughout their internment, Elie is...
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While imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Elie Wiesel recounts experiencing swelling in his foot. He approached an imprisoned doctor for advice, and the doctor advised him to get...
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The concept of silence is a very important one in Night. Wiesel uses his narrative to display the dangers of silence. Wiesel sees silence as dangerous because it allows abuse to happen. In Night,...
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Eliezer’s father got weaker, and he eventually fell ill while at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He suffered from a bout of dysentery until he succumbed from the effects of the disease and...
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At first, the passengers of the car are panicking because they are not sure what is going on. This woman is just screaming about a fire in the middle of the night and there is no fire to be seen....
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Night
The inversion of roles is one way the relationship between father and son changes in Wiesel's Night. At the start of the narrative, there is a clearly defined relationship between Eliezer and his...
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The prisoner tells Elie to lie and say that he is eighteen, instead of giving his true age of fifteen, so that Elie will be counted as an adult and will be able to stay with his father. This...
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On the evening before Pentecost, the Jews find out they are all being deported. Things have already not been going well. It happened in stages. First, the Jews were forced into ghettos. These were...
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In Elie's case, his family is separated at Birkenau, the reception center to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. As soon as the Jews from Sighet disembark the train they are divided by gender...
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The "positivity" in Night is seen in Eliezer's sensitivity to human suffering. There is much in Night that can foreshadow Wiesel's future commitment to human rights. Throughout Night, Eliezer...
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It might seem odd to refer to love and connection as a "weak point," but when you are in a survival situation, concern for anyone other than yourself, of necessity, dilutes your resources -- both...
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There are contrasting examples of parent and child relationships, particularly father and son, in Elie Wiesel's Night. Throughout the memoir, Elie does his best to remain faithful to his father,...
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After having been in Auschwitz for eight days, Eliezer and his father came upon Stein, a relative. Stein told them that he was from Antwerp and that Reizel, his wife, was the niece of Eliezer's...
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Night
Night is Elie Wiesel's choice, not only for his title, but also for the word's symbolic significance throughout the novel. The nighttime is a time of the unknown--we cannot see what is coming. It's...
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When Elie approaches selection at Auschwitz, Dr. Mengele and the SS officers separate the group -- men to one side and women to the other. At this point, Elie is not separated from both his mother...
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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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In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam of Troy. She was given the powers of prophecy by Apollo as long as she did what he wanted. When she refused, he cursed her by making...
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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which...
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When the Polish musician Juliek, who worked in the electrical warehouse at Buna, speaks to Elie among the crush of men who have come to the barracks at Gleiwitz, he is fearful that his violin will...
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In looking at Night and its Preface, it is clear that Wiesel remained committed to his insistence on compassion. I tend to think that reading Night should precede reading its Preface. Doing so...
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While there was little Elie could have done to prevent his father's death, given how sick his father was, there was quite a bit that he could have done differently with regard to his reaction. The...
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The similar themes between Angela's Ashes and Night are the growth of the young male protagonist during a difficult situation to the point at which the protagonist is more powerful than his...
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Night
Both books tell very powerful stories of suffering and survival from a young boy's perspective. While at first glance, they may seem quite different, they actually do have some similarities. One of...
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Elie Wiesel came from Sighet, a town in Transylvania which at the time of his birth was part of Romania but fell under Hungarian jurisdiction in 1940 so was part of Hungary when Elie and his family...
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At Buchenwald Eliezer’s father comes down with dysentery, which is one of the worst illnesses to contract given the conditions. The chances of death are almost guaranteed because there is no...
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In Night, the celebration of Passover was comic because people pretended to be happy. Wiesel shows the comedic aspect of Passover in Sighet. Everyone played their traditional part in the...
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In their concentration camps during World War II the Nazis often used prisoners to guard other prisoners. On their first night at Auschwitz, Elie and his father are supervised by gypsies. In...
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I believe that Elie exhibits a great deal of bravery in the face of overwhelming violence and despair during his yearlong imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. After all, Elie was only fifteen...
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Night is a harrowing memoir of a young man attempting to survive the Holocaust. In its first chapter, Night reveals much about the Jewish community where Elie spends his youth. These observations...
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In section five of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night the prisoners at Buna are being evacuated to the west with the onslaught of the Russian army. Elie is just recovering from foot surgery and he and his...