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Poignacy In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Throughout the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, a novel about Elie’s first hand experience during the Holocaust, have many examples of poignancy. For example, family separation and fear. On page eighty one, in lines six - twenty three, it shows Elie’s father’s death, as an example of family separation. Also, on page forty two, in lines twenty five - forty, it shows Elie getting beat by Idek, the Kapo, as an example of fear.

First of all, on page eighty one, lines six - twenty three, Elie’s father’s death. Reading this, I remember imagining being in his place, having my father die in front of me. The feelings, the emotions going through my head were very ambivalent. Not knowing what was happening. Not to mention, Elie’s father was all that he

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