Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel 34). Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, thinks these words after the first night in Birkenau concentration camp. After being separated from his mother and little sister forever, Wiesel then witnessed children being burned and innocent people being shot. Before these tragic events, he used to study the Talmud and Kabbalah every day. However, after one day in the camps, he no longer felt God’s presence. In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel is affected spiritually, emotionally, and physically due to the year he spent in the concentration camps. Due to what he witnessed and experienced in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel questioned

Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel
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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel
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A boy, only thirteen, was sentenced to be hanged along with two others. The prisoners gathered around the gallows as they were forced to bear witness to all the hangings that took place in the camp, but unlike the other times Eliezer, along with the other prisoners, wept. Eliezer even mentions that the Lagerkapo, the head of the camp, refused to act as executioner, instead three other SS guards took his place. Furthermore, after the chairs were tipped over, as the Lagerkapo commands the onlookers to remove their caps to pay their respect, Eliezer notes that the Lagerkapo’s voice is quivering. This is especially powerful because it is the only incidence in the novella where a Nazi shows any shred of humanity, and for this one small moment in time, all the observers are human.
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Religion In Night By Elie Wiesel
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