The Holocaust. I never knew much about the heartbreaking event. Of the frightening truth of what happened those nights. Of the innocent being killed, stripped of their dignity, and forgotten. The young, left alone and scared in that fermented society they lived in. Selene Bruk, a kind-hearted, innocent woman, lived to tell her story about her life in that tragic time. Selene Bruk, as a young fifth-grader, had this hard time in her life where she was in hiding and, as she was laying down after a
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Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. 1933 Nazi soldiers began the process of dehumanization of thousands of jews. Eva’s Story tells the horrific story of her time in the camp and of the dehumanization. Its starts with the process of going into hiding and then being caught by the Nazis. It then goes to how they were transported and how they treated them. Which then leads to the camps, the process
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The book night is about a boy who was 13 named Elie Wiesel who him and his father were transferred from camp to camp by the green police. In these camps these two men were beaten elie’s father was eventually to weak to go on. Elie was to help his father survive and get strength to be able to continue . Elie’s father ended up too weak and died and Elie was to survive on his own at the final concentration camp he was transferred to . This is an example of what people went through in the holocaust
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remaining family member? Despite seeing the treacheries around him, Wiesel somehow manages to keep moral ground, even up to his father's sickly death. With the power of faith, family, and community, Wiesel keeps himself from betraying his father. Elie Wiesel’s naturally faithful self is a key part in his struggle to keep morality. Before being sent off to the concentration camps,
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1. Elie Wiesel was young and still learning. He was content with life. He was uninformed of what was happening around him. He was also seeking knowledge of his religion. In other words he was looking to blossom under a teacher. 2. The Germans slowly crept into their life. Through the ghetto. Yet Elie was still Naïve and content for his life. Still having faith in god. His hopes were also set on the red army. 3. Elie finally gets a grip on what’s going on when he is relocated to the second
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is inevitable. It is something that is bound to happen no matter what the outcome.In the novel night, Elie Wiesel’s character goes on a journey that will forever change his life and many situations around them. People go from living in a house to being forced and killed in a concentration camp. No one can predict what the outcome will be because the possibilities of life and death are endless. Elie Wiesel changes his religious beliefs because he lost faith and his religious beliefs couldn't save him
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peace or a year of the opposite. Elie hears a nearby prisoner blessing,thanking and he is the only one that owns the universe and the world. Elie believes that God is not present in the world, he allows such suffering to the ones that believe him. He turned his back to the ones that respect him, praise him and allows mass killing of young children and adults. He then considers that Man, the inventions of God, have overcome and are stronger than the creator. Elie runs to his father, wanting to wish
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The book Silent Night is a book about a truce between the Germans and the allies during World War One to celebrate the holiday of Christmas. The book depicts what living through World War One was like by painting pictures of how life was like through living conditions, what the fighting was like, and how eventually people come together. Two areas in this book that stuck out so far were the depiction of the living conditions and how people can really come together even if there is so much hate.
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Tone Over the course of chapter 5, I have seen that the Elie’s perspective on god and his religion has changed drastically, giving this story a very depressing tone. This has been shown because in the time of the Jewish new year, he was telling himself that he was feeling rebellious against god “What are you, my god? I thought angrily” . He was questioning why god had let this happen. He was asking why god wasn’t helping them and why this has happened. The rebellious feeling in him was probably
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The tone in this chapter is hard to understand. I can't really understand how to decode Elie’s thoughts. This tone is now being about mood. I feel that he is very scared from the SS men and how he can evade them and how to get out of the camp. He is scared for his life and for his father's. He has seen the hangings and what the SS can accomplish when they get tired of what the jews are doing. He doesn't want to die and he doesn't feel alive anymore, he wants to be free like all others in the camps
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