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A theme running through Night is that what we know or commonly believe about human nature is invalidated in the death camp. People are systematically reduced to the level of animals by those who...
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In Night, author Elie Wiesel writes of his experiences in the death camps during World War II, giving testimony to the horrors prisoners endured. Wiesel tries to communicate that even in this evil...
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In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel does not provide much description of his sister Bea. We therefore know very little about her. What he tells us generally about his family is: There were four of us...
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A significant moment in which Elie Wiesel’s relationship with his father Shlomo shifts in Night is when Shlomo is beaten by one of the prison guards during his and Elie’s shift counting...
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Elie Wiesel’s book Night chronicles the horrors he endured in the Nazi death camps. People became inured to death because it was all around them all the time. For instance, Elie’s interaction...
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Elie Wiesel’s book Night chronicles the horrors he endured in the Nazi death camps. Elie was with his father for much of the time in the camps. In telling Oprah that he survived because he wanted...
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In his book Night, author Elie Wiesel writes about the horrors of the World War II death camps. On the trip to the camp, Elie’s father saves his life: I felt two hands on my throat, trying to...
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Fear is a weapon heavily utilized in the concentration camps as described by Elie Wiesel in Night. A major way in which fear is used to prevent the prisoners from rebelling against the guards is...
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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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Thanks for the question! In the third chapter of Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night, the author claims that his first night in the concentration camp “murdered my God and murdered my...
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The Nazis enacted a plan of total extermination against the Jewish people during the Holocaust. When Jews were stolen from their homes and forcibly sent to concentration camps, they were either...
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Most people would probably agree that Elie's reactions are understandable. He is a teenage boy placed in a horrifying situation in which he and his fellow Jews are treated as less than human....
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Eliezer Wiesel's form of resistance is rooted in his denial of the existence of god/the goodness of god. Elie resists a theological demand that he obey, trust, or appreciate a god that could allow...
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Wiesel's desire to survive is most impacted by his father. From the very beginning of the novel, Wiesel emphasizes the strength of the family bond, and, once separated from his mother and sister,...
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Upon arrival at Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz, Elie and his father face the infamous selection conducted by the "notorious Dr. Mengele." Elie is separated from his mother and sister...
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The quote you are after is one of the key quotes in Night that directly relates to the theme of God and religion in the context of the holocaust. It comes as the prisoners watch a child, beloved of...
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In his book Night, author Elie Wiesel writes of his experiences during World War II and the horrors the Jews endured both before and in the death camps during the Holocaust. When the Wiesel family...
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That religion is a central element in Eliezer's life is obvious from the opening pages of Night. This is before war and genocide have impacted the people of his hometown, Sighet. Eliezer is...
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This question is difficult because the circumstances described in Night are so horrific that it is impossible for family relationships to be maintained as they are in "normal" life. In his hometown...
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In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel appeals to people to have a more inclusive sense of humanity. First, in his introduction to Night, a book in which he testifies about the atrocities prisoners...
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"Night" is not only the title, but a recurring motif in this story. Its significance is both religious and emotional. Probably the best and most repeated example from the story comes in the third...
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Not surprisingly, there are several examples of hopelessness and death in the final four sections of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night. The sections focus on the deportation from Buna, Elie's father's...
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In chapter four, Elie is severely beaten by Idek, has his crown stolen from his mouth, and experiences the trauma of witnessing a young pipel publicly hanged. Elie mentions that the pipel was so...
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Elie makes this observation as Jews are being deported, and his family has settled into the ghetto where the deported had been living. Promptly, the Jews who are new to the ghetto have forgotten...
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If there's one message to be taken away from Night in regard to religious belief, it is that belief alone is not sufficient to face the horrors of humanity's darkest moments. However, even after a...
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The opening line provides foreshadowing in this chapter: The summer was coming to an end. Summer is often equated with a sense of freedom and growth. In this line, then, we see the impending end...
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Elie Wiesel lost his faith in the goodness and justice of God. Through the horrors of the concentration camps, Wiesel experienced a loss of faith. He was so devastated by the gas chambers, the...
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Soon after Elie and his family are moved to a smaller Jewish ghetto, they are deported to Auschwitz. As Elie says with some sense of irony, they are moved on Saturday, the Jewish day of rest. The...
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Elie is forced to make the decision that he cannot always protect his father from the proliferation of violence they face on a day-to-day basis in the Nazi death camps. The first example of this...
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In the beginning of Weisel's story, he has almost no relationship with his father. His father is a busy community leader and his duties leave little time for interaction with his son. Elie...
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For many Holocaust survivors like Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust was the most transformative event of their lives. The concentration camps’ torturous conditions left mental and physical scars that...
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Moishe the Beadle says that man comes closer to God through the questions we ask him. It is the questions that matter, not the answers because, according to Moishe, we do not understand the...
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Mrs. Schächter is traveling with her ten-year-old son on the train to Auschwitz in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. On the third day of the journey, she begins screaming that she sees a fire outside...
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As an adolescent, Elie was a deeply observant Jew and would spend the majority of his days studying the Talmud or weeping over the destruction of the temple in the local synagogue. Elie desired to...
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Over the course of his hellish experiences, Eliezer increasingly comes to feel that his father is a burden. Like every other prisoner in Auschwitz, Eliezer's whole purpose in life is to survive,...
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In Night, Elie Wiesel describes the process of "selections" in which the sick and dying prisoners were weeded out, leaving the healthy ones to work. After one of these selections, an SS officer...
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This scene occurs near the end of Elie Wiesel's story and at a point when he isn't sure that he or his father will survive. Hopelessness begins to creep in; just prior to this, his father's vital...
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The foreign Jews living in Sighet are the first people persecuted in Elie's small town as the Nazi influence around their village begins to grow. The Hungarian police herd the foreign Jews into...
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Eliezer's initial description of his father is a neutral one: he seems to indicate that there is a distance of sorts between himself and his father, but the boy is nevertheless respectful to him...
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Your best bet here is irony. The morning star is often used to symbolize hope and guidance. Elie realizes the transformation from night (symbolic of evil and spiritual darkness) into something more...
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While Elie’s development is multifaceted, he changes on two major fronts in chapter three. One is his attitude toward God. In the beginning of the story, he is a devout Jew to whom praying is as...
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It's April 1945, and the end is almost nigh for Nazi Germany. The SS officers in charge of the Buchenwald concentration camp have got wind that the American army is fast approaching. So they decide...
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We constantly make decisions in life, from what to wear in the morning to what career to pursue. Wiesel makes choices throughout his life, and so it is interesting to look at the impact these...
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In Elie Wiesel's book Night, Moshe the Beadle is deported before the rest of the inhabitants of the community of Sighet. Moshe returns to Sighet to try to warn others of the true actions of the...
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Elie witnesses the rabbi looking for his son during the prisoners' life-threatening run/march to Gleiwitz. The rabbi is convinced that his son would never leave him and continues his search. Elie...
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During Passover week, Jews gathered in private homes, especially those of the rabbis, because all the synagogues had been closed. Rejoicing, as the Bible directed, did not come easy, because people...
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The eight short words that change Elie's life forever are "Men to the left! Women to the right!" These are the words barked at Elie and the other prisoners by an SS guard after they arrive at...
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Before Elie becomes a prisoner at Auschwitz and experiences the horrors of the Holocaust, he is a devout Jew, who spends the majority of his adolescence studying the Talmud and praying in the...
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Thanks for the question! The connotation of a word is the emotional weight a word carries for the reader. The connotation of a word is different than the denotation, or the dictionary definition...
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Moishe the beadle had tried to warn the Jews of Sighet what was in store for them. He'd witnessed at first hand the brutal treatment meted out to the foreign Jewish deportees herded onto cattle...
