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Dichotomy In Elie Wiesel's Night

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It’s not often that a story can build such feeling and emotion with words directly from the author’s own experiences. Night is a fine example of how Eliezer’s psychological standing was of course to seek pleasure and avoid pain, severs his course of teenage development and limited his ultimate fulfillment. As the one writer, Reed Clay, evaluates, “The course of development taken by a person is the result of the relative strengths of the desire for pleasure versus the fear of pain” and he believes that it is this dichotomy that governs basic human behavior and the entire operation of civilization itself (Clay 2). To be fair, if we were to critic the outside society of the masses during the Holocaust, it would be most evident that the ultimate

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