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Hardships In Night

            
             The Holocaust is a terrifying event in which Elie Wiesel faces during his lifetime. Night is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel of Hungary. Elie Wiesel undergoes many hardships. He also deals with these hardships in different ways than the ways in which we would deal with them. There are many interesting overall effects on the book as well. Elie Wiesel manages to survive the hardships of the Holocaust, but not without changes in him and effect on the overall book.
             Elie faces many hardships during his years at the concentration camps. For one, Elie is separated from his mother and sisters. To add to this, his father dies later in the book. This example shows that Elie no longer has any family and has no place to turn in life. Elie faces another hardship when he is put to work on numerous tasks, without an adequate amount of food in his stomach. His physical condition is destroyed because his body becomes thin and he injures his foot. This makes it harder for Elie to do the required jobs of the concentration camps. Elie is forced to bear the sights of many deaths, yet another example of a hardship he faces. Not only does his family die, but friends from his home and relatives also die. An example would be when Stein of Antwerp comes to ask Elie of the condition of his wife and sons. Elie makes up a lie that gives Stein hope when there really isn't. This example illustrates how Elie is only trying to protect Stein from the truth, when really it's just making it worse. This leads Elie away from God. Without God, the hardships are even more difficult because he must now face them alone.
             These hardships Elie faces induce change in him in a number of ways. One of the ways in which Elie is altered is how he views life. He sees more deaths in a few years than we"ll witness in a lifetime. The most appalling thing though, is that Elie is not upset at all by the many deaths he sees through these very demanding years.


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1. my reactions to Night

When I read this short book, I was in an anxious mood, for I would move off to college the next day. I was very full of my own thoughts, very concerned with how things would turn out for me. This book gave me pause, and turned my mind toward darker topics. Night started out so happily, that I knew it had to take a turn for the worse ... . As if the cover, portraying a desolate youth surrounded by harsh barbed wire, weren't enough, I'd heard from several sources that this thin volume pertained to the Holocaust. I'd seen pictures of heaps of skeletal figures, with shaven heads, and been told ho...

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... Wiesel himself as a child, is the main character in Night. This story takes him from being a boy to beyond manhood. The questions he is forced to ask himself along the way about himself and his family, but mainly his God are the reasons behind his change. Night is about change and Elie is at the forefront ... all day. On the first page of his story he says "I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple." Moshe taught him his most important lesson, "Man raises himself toward ... "Blessed be the Na...

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... book fighting to survive. By examining Elie and his father one can see details of people fighting to survive. The book NIGHT shows that a person can survive extreme conditions. For example Elie ran 42 miles in one night without stopping. This shows one can push themselves just with the thought of living, even most athletes would have trouble running this far. This also ... concentration camps he had everything taken away from him. From the book one can see how to treasure the simple things in life. The book night showed many ways people survive Elie survived the concentration camps and ...

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6. Night

... as well. People all over the world were devastated by this terrible act, and there are still people today who haven't overcame its effects. Night opens the readers mind to the violence of the Holocaust and concentration camps. It gave a general idea of the kind of life Jews led ... at Auschwitz during this time such as starvation, poor living conditions, harsh labor, abuse, and executions. Another important aspect expressed in Night was the importance of faith. Elie's faith in God is destroyed by the cruelty and evil he witnesses during the Holocaust. He can't imagine that the concentrati...

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While reading the book, Night written by Elie Wiesel, I found it to be a very moving, but disturbing piece. This book focuses on the necessities in our life that we take for granted, necessities we do not even think about as being important. Wiesel writes a great deal about the hardships and happenings of the concentration camps during World War II. Even though history of the ... people into concentration camps, but we never focused on the lives of the Jewish community and the hardships that they had to go through in order to survive. Wiesel writes about his time spent in several different ca...

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