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Elie’s response to “Where is God?” with "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows” (Wiesel 65) portrays his questioning of faith and the path to losing it completely. Elie witnesses the hanging of two men and a boy. While the two men immediately died, the boy “was still breathing” and remained that way “for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our [Jewish prisoners] eyes” (Wiesel 65). By stating that God is among the hanging three, Elie is saying that along with the slow death of this boy is a slow loss of his faith in God. However, this loss of faith does not equate to the belief that God is not real: this loss of faith demonstrates his loss in believing that God is helpful in regards to getting rid of evil in the world. He still believes in God but “no longer accepted God’s silence” and will “protest against Him” (Wisel 69). Given this, his response to “Where is God?” not only indicates his questioning of faith, but also depicts the belief in God that he is constantly among us. Wiesel not only discusses his view of God but the general belief in God. Among the good and the midst of evil remains God, even if he doesn’t act upon what is happening. Elie is communicating that even throughout the good and the bad, God is among us: however, he is not doing “his job” of helping those in the midst of suffering, therefore leading to the loss of Elie’s faith.

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I have had an older woman be my mentor, my cousin. She is nineteen years old and her and her family have been living in my house for two and a half years now. Her name is Sidney and she attends UC Davis; she helps me a lot with my schoolwork and she teaches me how to cook different foods. She helps assign a routine for me at home. Whenever I do not know how to do an assignment, she always steps in and teaches me how to do the problem. She puts aside her workload in order to help me with mine and makes sure that I am learning and actually know how to solve the problems. She is basically an older sister to me, someone who can teach me about what it is like to be a girl in today’s society. She constantly encourages me to work out and gives me great advice on how to navigate certain situations. She, like Moishe, is similarly like “a master who could guide me. . .” (Wiesel 4). 

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I have had an older woman be my mentor, my cousin. She is nineteen years old and her and her family have been living in my house for two and a half years now. Her name is Sidney and she attends UC Davis; she helps me a lot with my schoolwork and she teaches me how to cook different foods. She helps assign a routine for me at home. Whenever I do not know how to do an assignment, she always steps in and teaches me how to do the problem. She puts aside her workload in order to help me with mine and makes sure that I am learning and actually know how to solve the problems. She is basically an older sister to me, someone who can teach me about what it is like to be a girl in today’s society. She constantly encourages me to work out and gives me great advice on how to navigate certain situations. She, like Moishe, is similarly like “a master who could guide me. . .” (Wiesel 4). 

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-Ashley Tham P4

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I believe that the guard is blatantly wrong when he tells Wiesel that “it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others” (Wiesel 110), because the world only works if people work together and can collaborate. This may seem to be solid advice at the concentration camp, but ultimately humans need to combine efforts to run the Earth. Every man must live for himself by working hard to earn a good job, education, and reputation. However, every day people work with and for each other by providing for their families and through simple tasks. For example, some people hunt or grow food, some are engineers and build our roads and technology, and parents or adults take care of young children. Without even realizing it, one uses many things that other people have helped obtain, and it is every man’s job to continue this cycle and work together so that every man gets what he needs. Although the guard believes that in the camps there is “no such thing as father, brother, friend”(Wiesel 110), I strongly disagree with this statement because each family member has different jobs to do that keep the family safe, healthy, and stable. -Grace O'Brien

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If I knew I was never going to see my family again, I’d be full of despair and deep sadness. Family plays a huge role in my life, as my family has guided me through the hardest of times and they have been there for the happiest points of my life yet. Never being able to see them again would bring me so much despair and sadness because my family is who I look to for comfort and peace. My family has always been there for me since I was born, so it would feel strange to have to say goodbye to them. I’ve been so used to having my family in my company to look to for telling stories, crying on, and sharing laughter with, so leaving them forever would feel different because having them is all I’ve ever known. I would tell them how much I loved them and how much they mean to me, knowing that I wouldn’t be seeing them ever again. It’s important to love everyone and it’s a shame that people only start to love things once they’ve lost it. I believe that it’s important to love everyone, especially when they’re still around. Family is something that can never be taken away from me, despite distance. I believe the love of family is stronger than any other love there is, whether it be biological or symbolically. Elie exclaims that he “needed to get my [Elie’s] father's advice” (Wiesel 55). To Elie, family is just as important as he looks to his father for advice or for guidance, even in the unprecedented times. Family is important not just to Elie, but to many others, myself included. I cannot imagine what Elie must’ve gone through to see his family for the last time in his life ever.

Hailey Truong

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Often we break things into two categories good and evil; day, light, and spring are good; night, darkness, and winter are bad. We limit our selves to seeing only the bad in bad things and only the good in good things. However, without the bad, there would be no good if winter didn’t happen there would be game to hunt in the spring or proper soil to grow crops. Without darkness, we would have or need light and without night we can’t wake up to a new day. In the prologue of Night, Elie describes adolescents as “an age when one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited”(Wiesel Preface to the New Translation). This wasn’t true in Elie’s case he had his innocence and humanity stripped away from him at the age of 15 in the Nazi concentration camps. The night is associated with darkness and evil, which accurately describe Elie’s teenage years. This likely the reason his memoir posses the title Night, however to Elie the night wasn’t all bad. Nighttime meant hope, hope tomorrow would be different “perhaps...Soon I would wake up with a start, and find that I was back in the room of my childhood” (Wiesel 42). Elie is grappling onto the last bit of hope of waking up to a different reality and one day his hope comes true. With night comes darkness in the darkness we cant see and Elie didn’t want to see, he didn’t want to see “ those flames that consumed” (Wiesel foreword). The night helped blind him of the reality of the camps even if it was temporary.  - Bhavya Kallam P.4

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Eliezer Wiesel questions on how the world can standby and do nothing as people--even children--are being burned. This question can most likely be answered because people do not believe that they are associated with what is happening elsewhere. It seems like if a person is not involved in a situation, then he or she feels like they should not be concerned about what is occurring. It is as though the world believes that other people can deal with their own problems. However, if someone does need help, it is expected for the person to reach out and seek help. The problem with this thought process is that during the Holocaust, the Jews could not seek help. They did not know or believed what was going on inside the concentration camps (hangings, shootings, etc.). Thus, once they were inside the camps it was then they realized its oppressive state (hangings, lack of food, death marches, etc.) they had no way of seeking help from the outside. They were “surrounded by barbed wire, thousands of Jews” (Wiesel 66). They could not ask the outside world to help them; thus, the world stayed silent and stood by as millions died. It is as though the world needed someone to say something, to say that they wanted to be saved, in order for action to be taken. On the other hand, I do not do anything and remain silent because I do not take the chance to learn about what is happening around me. I keep to my own business and do not take the time to learn about events that happen today (poverty, racism, etc.). Thus, by keeping to myself, I do not take action. I, like many others, stand by and am silent. However, after reading Night, I plan on learning more about what is occurring around me and to try to take action (donating food, money, etc.).. Thus, people stand by and are silent as things occur around them because they do not want to meddle with anyone else’s affairs, are too focused on their own affairs, or are waiting for someone to ask for help before they take action.

- Kaitlin Yen P.2

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I think that Madame Schachter began to scream about the fire in the window because she and the other Jews “saw flames rising like from a tall chimney into the black sky”(Wiesel 27) and once they arrived at Birkenau, there was a “smell of burning flesh” (Wiesel 27) that greeted them. Madame Schachter knew that her fate was already in place once she encountered the fire. She was certain that the flames were used to incinerate humans especially the Jews since they were all being transported to the concentration camp where the flames were. The enormous flames that were going to devour them were the flames in the crematoriums where Jewish corpses were burned after they died or were chosen for “The Selection”. If I were in the Jews’ position constantly hearing terrifying screams, I wouldn’t care about it because at that point, I would’ve lost all hope and confidence that I was going to make it out alive and well. I would be sent to a hellish place where I would roam and live until my fate was met. The flames itself would consume my will to live but arriving to see that there is more than just the fire wouldn’t surprise me anymore. I knew my reality in the concentration camp would be a traumatic one and there would be no way to avoid that pain. Madame Schachter’s screams would make me feel uncomfortable and worried for my own life just as everyone would if they were in the Jews’position. I feel that she had every right to scream because every Jew would constantly fear for their own life if they realized they were going to a concentration camp where they would experience the same level of suffering like everyone else. -
James Velasco

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In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he talks about his own horrifying experiences during the Holocaust and in the concentration camp Auzwitch. In the novel Wiesel and his family are sent to Auschwitz where him and his family are separated but Wiesel stays with his father. Soon after this all of the inmates including Wiesel are given numbers which would represent their names in the camp, “...needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). With the prisoner’s names stripped from them and replaced by numbers, they must have felt degraded as a human because a part of them that made them unique was taken away from them and replaced by numbers. They would also feel unimportant anymore because they do not have a name anymore, just a random number on their arm. In a smaller way, I would sometimes feel like a number when I am doing the same thing as a mass of people because then I do not feel any more unique than the other person. Another way I would feel like a number would be when I play football because I am literally just a number at that point because no one knows who you are and they just call you by your number. In conclusion, the inmates being forced to have their name stripped from them and given a random number degrades their humanity and makes the inmates feel less important in the world.

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In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he talks about his own horrifying experiences during the Holocaust and in the concentration camp Auzwitch. In the novel Wiesel and his family are sent to Auschwitz where him and his family are separated but Wiesel stays with his father. Soon after this all of the inmates including Wiesel are given numbers which would represent their names in the camp, “...needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). With the prisoner’s names stripped from them and replaced by numbers, they must have felt degraded as a human because a part of them that made them unique was taken away from them and replaced by numbers. They would also feel unimportant anymore because they do not have a name anymore, just a random number on their arm. In a smaller way, I would sometimes feel like a number when I am doing the same thing as a mass of people because then I do not feel any more unique than the other person. Another way I would feel like a number would be when I play football because I am literally just a number at that point because no one knows who you are and they just call you by your number. In conclusion, the inmates being forced to have their name stripped from them and given a random number degrades their humanity and makes the inmates feel less important in the world.

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- Justin Harvey

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Night is often associated with nothing to do, or emptiness. Its connotation is very dark, and somewhat negative. This remains true for other items, such as darkness, evil, and winter. To highlight these connotations in comparison to their opposites, (day, light, good, and spring), Elie Wiesel shows the hardships of characters in his novel Night, a piece of writing that demonstrates his experience as a Jew in the Holocaust and World War 2. It is apparent that Wiesel uses “night” to express how the Jews were “left in the dark” and lost all of their opportunities and rights during the Holocaust, similar to how people lose many opportunities to the darkness of nighttime, simply due to their inability to see clearly. Wiesel explains how he will “never (...) forget that night, the first night in camp, which (...) turned [his] life into one long night” (Wiesel 43). Evidently, this shows how much of a negative impact the Holocaust had on his life, leaving him in such a damaged place, mentally and physically. The comparison of night with the rest of Wiesel's life goes to show how detrimental the Holocaust remained on the Jews even after it came to an end. - Annie Carmichael Period 2

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I feel like the Jews, having to prove their worth over and over again, would feel pretty humiliated and inferior. During one of the selections Wiesel had to endure, he recounts the thoughts running through his head: “you are too skinny...you are too weak...you are too skinny, you are good for the ovens …” (Wiesel 72). The Selection is a demeaning process, and judges whether you should die or not based on how healthy you look. And while Jews were fearing for their life, they were also constantly brainwashed into thinking that they were never good enough to stay alive. To be honest, I feel that the ability to produce something does make humans worth something, but not in the brutal way the Nazis wanted humans to produce. If a human can make someone smile, maybe even produce laughter, I’d say that human is worth something. I don’t think it really matters if they can physically produce, rather emotionally produce which gives a person its worth in this world. Even when the person dies, they’re ultimately only known for the connections and relationships they’ve had. -Katie Knowles P.3

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A person I would consider to be a mentor is my grandpa. In 2011 he bought the restaurant at Cordova Golf Course, so for the following five years I spent hours with him each day. Just as Moishe, “spoke to me [Elie] for hours on end” (Wiesel 5) my grandpa and I did the same. We would talk about many things that concerned our culture and the world around us. During the five year span at Cordova I was fortunate to play free golf, meet numerous people, and learn from the people I surrounded myself with at the course (many of them were older people). The ability to have somebody teach me things from a very experienced view, gave me a mindset of someone much older than my age. It allowed me to view life in a different perspective compared to those around me. Many of my elementary and middle school teachers said I had an “old soul” and I thank my experiences with my grandpa for that. Today I reflect on many of the days I spent at Cordova Golf Course from 2011-2016 and try to stay true to the things I learned then. - Andrew de la Cruz P2

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When the Jews were transported to Auschwitz for the first time, they were stripped of their names and were “tattooed numbers on our left arms” (Wiesel 42). Names are important to me because they express someone’s culture and background. Since my name is of Farsi origin, it automatically shows that my background belongs to the Persian culture. But because not everyone knows that my name is of Farsi origin, it gives me a chance to take pride in my ethnicity and explain to them what it means and where it comes from. If I was stripped of my name like the Jews, they would take a part away from me and somehow make me fit in with everyone. To me, names give character and individuality. When you take that away from someone, they would consider themselves the same as everyone else and no longer carry that spark of uniqueness anymore. Names also give insight to one’s religion. For example, some Abrahamic followers name their children after prophets from their holy book and it connects to them, whether they consider themselves religious or not.
~Nazneen-Sultana Jawadi, Per. 3

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In Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his experiences as a Jew during the holocaust in concentration camps. Before his deportation to the ghettos and concentration camps, Wiesel was deeply devout, and heavily invested in his religion at a young age. When asked why he prayed, Elie thought “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?” (Wiesel 4). To him, prayer was as necessary as living and breathing. Even on his last night before being deported, Wiesel got up early to pray before leaving. Prayers are important in Night, because they show who still believed in God and who didn’t. They are used to show when Wiesel was questioning his religion, and “In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, [he] felt like an observer, a stranger,” (Wiesel 68). Another prayer also used to show how doomed the Jews feel: Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. As the Jews enter Auschwitz for the first time, they start reciting Kaddish for themselves. Wiesel says he doesn’t know “Whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves,” (Wiesel 33). The Jews, seeing crematoriums, believe they are all going to die, and thinking that they are going to die and nobody will be able to recite a prayer for them, recite the prayer for themselves. The fact that Wiesel doesn’t think anyone had ever recited Kaddish for themselves except during the Holocaust shows what a uniquely horrible genocide it was, to inspire an entire new use of a prayer just to accept your own death.

-Zac Sherar

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The mindset that every man must live for himself builds upon the concept of “survival of the fittest”. In today’s world, this idea is extremely narrow-minded and demeaning as it typically refers to the nature of animals, as opposed to human nature. However, given the victims’ unique conditions, their survival in the death camps heavily depended on this mentality. Bearing only the responsibility for oneself gave a prisoner a greater chance of making it out alive, in contrast to the additional burden of taking care of a family member. Wiesel observed the latter when a Rabbi’s son “went missing”, and Wiesel questioned if “he had wanted to be rid of his father? He had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (Wiesel 91). The corruptness of the son’s actions accentuates his desperation for survival, even to the extent of abandoning his sick father. The countless atrocities that the prisoners endured shaped them into emotionally numb individuals who can only afford to fight for their own survival. At the point between life and death, they suppress their pre-existing morals and values in favor of living.
-An Le

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The memoir is called Night because night plays a large part of the story and Wiesel’s life in the concentration camps. Wiesel keeps saying phrases including “Night fell” (Wiesel 22) because of how night symbolizes the darkness of the concentration camps. However, night also provided a moment of peace to him and others because it was the only time he got to rest and collect his thoughts. In comparison to night, during the day the Jewish were forced to work in harsh conditions with little to no food. Therefore, the light vs. darkness is switched in the concentration camps because while morning is usually light and happy, it is now the time where people struggle to stay alive. However, the night time has more light and positivity than the morning because it was when they could communicate and tell stories to each other. The only light surrounded in the darkness of their lives was being able to have family and friends next to them. Good vs. Evil is shown throughout the book because the good did not want to believe that people could be deceiving and evil. In the beginning, while Moishe was trying to warn people about the SS officers, the Jewish did not believe him. He constantly talks about how “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (Wiesel 6). Therefore, there is a struggle between the darkness of the good and evil because of the denial. When they finally realize the dangers and evils of the Nazis, it is too late. In the spring there were better working conditions compared to in the winter, so it was more enjoyable. In the winter, the people in the concentration camps were forced to work and stay in the cold where it was snowing and unbearable. Numerous people died from the excessive cold and minimal clothing. However, in the spring it was warmer and less people died from the weather.

-Christine Bao P3

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Within the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he devotes his love and practices to God while in the concentration camp. Elie went through trauma seeing his family being torn away from him and his father being killed right in front of his eyes. Elie started to lose his faith in God, “Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked (Wiesel 65). Eliezer witnesses the death of a young boy hung by the Nazis. This moment in the novel signifies the lowest point of his faith in God. Before the war, Elie would’ve never even thought to question God but seeing the young boy die, he thought about himself and how his life is being affected. Elie wonders if the hanging is the death of his belief or God. Jews devote their love to God and they wonder how he could let such a horrible event occur in their lives. Hanging the child crosses the line which pulls many Jews beliefs of faith and God away, this causes the Jews to forget any will to live and breathe at this point in life. After witnessing the death Eliezer just feels like death is everywhere among them and he is unable to enjoy anything because all goodness is destroyed.

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Within the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he devotes his love and practices to God while in the concentration camp. Elie went through trauma seeing his family being torn away from him and his father being killed right in front of his eyes. Elie started to lose his faith in God, “Where is God? Where is He?” someone behind me asked (Wiesel 65). Eliezer witnesses the death of a young boy hung by the Nazis. This moment in the novel signifies the lowest point of his faith in God. Before the war, Elie would’ve never even thought to question God but seeing the young boy die, he thought about himself and how his life is being affected. Elie wonders if the hanging is the death of his belief or God. Jews devote their love to God and they wonder how he could let such a horrible event occur in their lives. Hanging the child crosses the line which pulls many Jews beliefs of faith and God away, this causes the Jews to forget any will to live and breathe at this point in life. After witnessing the death Eliezer just feels like death is everywhere among them and he is unable to enjoy anything because all goodness is destroyed.

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-Paige Bynum p.2

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A major motif of this story is family and reading through it makes one think about their own family. A moment in which this self-reflection occurs is when Wiesel is writing about being separated from his own family and how he “didn’t know that this was the moment in time” he would be leaving his “mother and Tzipora forever”(Wiesel 29). If I knew I was never going to be able to see my family again, at first I would feel very panicked and angry. After it finally sinks in, however, I think I would mostly feel heartbreak and maybe a little bit of anger. One of the very first things I would do is write individual letters with a picture of all of us together to my mom, dad, and brother. Then, I would tell them I love them and that no matter how far apart we are we will always have each other. I would thank my mom for raising me on her own for a big portion of my life. I would thank my step-dad for being the dad I never thought I would have and for fulfilling that spot in my life so perfectly. I would thank my brother for being the best little brother I could ever have, the one who always cheers me up and always has my back. If there’s one thing I learned from Wiesel’s story is to always appreciate your family (blood or not) because one day they can be taken away from you.

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In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer witnesses a young boy and two others hanged for collaborating against the Nazis which signifies Eliezer’s faith in God essentially dying. As the child is struggling, Eliezer’s innocence is completely taken from him. When the prisoners are hanged, someone behind Elie asks, “Where is God? Where is He?” and as they watch the child hang, Elie writes “For more than half an hour the child in the noose stayed there, struggling between life and death” (Wiesel 65). When Elie says that God is up there hanging in the noose signifies Elie’s belief in God being ripped from him, as he watches the child hang his faith is completely broken. The suffering that he witnesses during the Holocausts changes his entire worldview, so when he experiences this event, his religious beliefs do as well. This horrible moment represents a deeper meaning of the low point of Eliezer’s faith. As Elie Wiesel witnesses the Holocaust as a whole, he slowly starts to question his belief in God because of the cruelty that he is living through. When a young boy is hung right before his eyes, his religious standpoint is completely out of sight because of the horrific thing he just saw.

-Grace Smith

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I agree with this statement, if I were to never see my family again I would feel the same way.
-Grace Smith

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Elie’s faith was consumed by the fire on the first night because of the sight of “the small faces of children whose bodies...transformed into smoke”(Wiesel 34). Elie’s faith had been devoured after witnessing the torture of young innocent souls being set on fire. This event would cause trauma to anyone in their right mind because burning to death is said to be one of the worst forms of torture, and to see this being put upon children is even worse. What makes the sight of babies being burned more wicked is that humans are doing it as a form of punishment. This punishment ultimately affected Elie’s faith because he saw just how evil people can actually be. Situations like this affect religious people because they see all the things that people can do to others without being punished themselves. Acts like the ones that were commited leave not only physical trauma but also mental trauma. The religious people might see the immoral acts and wonder “where is God?”(Wiesel 65) or wonder why he isn’t doing anything. After seeing that god didn’t act when all of those humans were getting tortured, religious people might drift from their religion or become less involved. In extreme cases they may even stop practicing the religion all together.-Sierra Yarns

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Elie’s faith was consumed by the fire on the first night because of the sight of “the small faces of children whose bodies...transformed into smoke”(Wiesel 34). Elie’s faith had been devoured after witnessing the torture of young innocent souls being set on fire. This event would cause trauma to anyone in their right mind because burning to death is said to be one of the worst forms of torture, and to see this being put upon children is even worse. What makes the sight of babies being burned more wicked is that humans are doing it as a form of punishment. This punishment ultimately affected Elie’s faith because he saw just how evil people can actually be. Situations like this affect religious people because they see all the things that people can do to others without being punished themselves. Acts like the ones that were commited leave not only physical trauma but also mental trauma. The religious people might see the immoral acts and wonder “where is God?”(Wiesel 65) or wonder why he isn’t doing anything. After seeing that god didn’t act when all of those humans were getting tortured, religious people might drift from their religion or become less involved. In extreme cases they may even stop practicing the religion all together.-Sierra Yarns

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The person that is my mentor in life would be my older brother. Since the day I was born my older brother has guided me through the right path and not made the same mistakes he has made. It’s a relief having an older brother helping me through homework if I ever need it and helping me pick my classes for high school. My mentor helps me get a better future and motivates me because he wants the best for me and he also gives advice about getting a high GPA so you don’t have to stay as long in community college. He is very similar to Moishe like “a master who could guide me . . .” (Wiesel 4). My brother mentors me about getting fifteen units in college to start with because the school will go a lot faster and also tells me to join clubs, so I could know where every building is and not get frustrated as he did. He also gives me advice on getting a job in school. They work with your schedule and do not work outside of college because they do not consider helping you with your schedule. My brother constantly gives me the motivation to finish high school with a good GPA and not be like him barely getting a high enough GPA to graduate high school and take five years in community college to transfer to a university. -Alfredo Lopez P3

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Throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel he struggles to maintain his faith as he experiences and witnesses unimaginable acts of genocide and cruelty.Born a jewish follower Elie is taught to believe in god resulting in his study of the ¨Kabblah¨(Wiesel 31) and the Torah.His religion promotes the image that god is good and will answer ur prayers.As Elie witnesses people cry out to god for help and pray in fear of death and the situation only getting worse he begins to loose faith in his core beliefs.He than reaches the lowest point during his religious struggle when he says ¨God is up there hanging in the noose¨.Elie expresses his inner feelings of no longer believing in his religion by stating god is dead.This prompts him to prioritze his survival over his core beliefs and even his family.He lashes out at his dad for not avoiding trouble with the leaders of his working group showing a deep change in his morals and view of the world.

-Sean McBride

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In the novel Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he explains in depth of what occurred in the concentration camps and shared his personal story. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were forced into concentration camps by the Nazis and had numbers tattooed on their arms. This happened to Elie while he was in one of the camps “The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). By the Nazis stripping the jews identity of their names, it made them feel worthless and not human in a way because names are how people address one another. The Nazis wanted to take everything from the jewish people so they felt powerless and would never attempt to fight back. Taking their names was just one way the Nazis deteriorated the jews making them feel like objects, not humans. On a smaller scale I could relate to feeling just like a number when I am only around people who are above me and I am clearly the least experienced in the group. Taking a person's name and calling them by numbers as if they are an object will make someone completely deteriorate, feeling worthless.
-Jordan Harris P.2

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To have your name stripped and replaced with a number would feel devastating. The one thing your parents gave you, everyone knew you by, and the name you grew to love was taken away. It is something that you thought you could never lose and something you think you could ever love, but it’s gone. The Jews that were put into concentration camps had little faith in making it out alive, they had their names taken and replaced by a number… a number, it’s almost like the Nazi’s thought they were clothing that needed a price tag or cattle that just needed a new branding. I can’t even fathom the emotions a Jewish man or woman or child felt when they had their names taken. The fury and sadness they must have felt seems impossible, but I bet they all felt it. Your name is like your identity and to have it taken away makes you feel like nothing. The time I felt like a number was when I had soccer tryouts and the coaches didn’t know our names because there were so many girls, but they just knew us by our jersey number. At tryouts, you are getting judged off of your talent, so to not have the coaches know your name feels like you are nothing. -Brayden Wheeler P3

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Madame Schachter was  going crazy, as everybody hoped she was, and nobody believed her. When the people in the cattle car began to come to a stop, they all saw the chimneys and the fires, “‘Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!”And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky.”(Wiesel 28).  They didn’t know what the fires were for yet but they  did not like the look of them. Madame was only hinting at the horrors that had yet to come. She must have heard stories about her husband and sons  that haunted her and this event sparked the “fires and the flames” she mentioned so often. The huge fire that is going to devour them all is the concentration camp. The camp will devour the Jews freedom, identity, and their dignity. They will all just be burned in the crematorium after they prove themselves no longer useful to the S.S. I would feel annoyed but mostly fearing for what is to come for our lives after the train. I would also feel bad for the lady as she is longing for her husband and the reset of her sons, and also angry because she wouldn’t stay quiet.-Jayden McDonald

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The fires Elie witnessed on the first night of him being at Auschwitz shocked him. Wiesel witnessed babies being thrown into a fire, and concluded that his faith was thrown in there as well, “ Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” ( Wiesel 34). Wiesel could not rationalize a God that would allow such a thing to occur. Witnessing the worst that humanity has to offer would make anyone question their faith in an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. The flames that night effectively broke Wiesel and many other Jews. This was the goal of the Nazis that night, to break their prisoners. Elie could not forgive God for allowing the embodiment of innocence, children, being thrown into a fire. Religiously, Elie could not justify it. - Ethan Williams

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The fires Elie witnessed on the first night of him being at Auschwitz shocked him. Wiesel witnessed babies being thrown into a fire, and concluded that his faith was thrown in there as well, “ Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.” ( Wiesel 34). Wiesel could not rationalize a God that would allow such a thing to occur. Witnessing the worst that humanity has to offer would make anyone question their faith in an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. The flames that night effectively broke Wiesel and many other Jews. This was the goal of the Nazis that night, to break their prisoners. Elie could not forgive God for allowing the embodiment of innocence, children, being thrown into a fire. Religiously, Elie could not justify it. - Ethan Williams

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Relying on others in the concentration camps was difficult but sometimes needed, like in Wiesel’s father’s case. Though Wiesel is told “it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others” (Wiesel 110) he still perseveres and stays by his father’s side amidst all the chaos. I think that idea is incorrect because when separated and forced under oppression, it is best to unite together and fight. Trying to be a lone wolf will not get one anywhere. There are some circumstances where it’s important to be independent. One should be able to stick up for themselves, take care of themselves, etc. Otherwise you’ll just let everyone walk all over you. In Wiesel’s case though, the advice is wrong because unity was their only form of strength in the camps and that guard wanted to take that away.
- Daisy Bajwa

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Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night describes the atrocities of the Nazis and contains many powerful themes and motifs. One of these is revealed in the form of a despairing question: Where is God? Enduring numerous horrors and abuse, Wiesel questions God’s presence and grace as Wiesel perceives Him to be sitting idly by while His people are slaughtered. One instance where God’s mercy is questioned happens when the Nazis hang three prisoners and one, a child, remains alive for more than thirty minutes. One man says, “Where is God?” and Wiesel replies, “[ . . . ] hanging here from the gallows” (Wiesel 65). It can be concluded that by this Wiesel means God is dead and dying: As the child slowly dies in agony, Wiesel’s faith in God too dies. Wiesel gives up all hope of God mercifully intervening. It is in this moment that the reader comes to realize that Wiesel no longer relies on religion for strength, instead willpower, desire to live, and bread motivate him to keep going. Especially when Wiesel says to himself that he “felt very strong [ . . . and his] eyes had opened and [he] was alone [ . . . ] in a world without God” (Wiesel 68), the reader truly grasps that Wiesel has answered the question of where God is: Gone.

~Brandon Fong

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Family                                  The hardest thing for anyone is saying goodbye to your family, but for Elie it was the very last time ever. If I knew I would never see my family ever again I wouldn't know how to feel except broken and in pieces. “‘Men to the left! Women to the right!” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother” (Wiesel 26). Family is usually the most important thing in everyone's lives and that being taken away is the scariest thing. I would feel such sorrow and I would say that I love them over and over again.

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Family                                  The hardest thing for anyone is saying goodbye to your family, but for Elie it was the very last time ever. If I knew I would never see my family ever again I wouldn't know how to feel except broken and in pieces. “‘Men to the left! Women to the right!” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight short, simple words. Yet that was the moment when I parted from my mother” (Wiesel 26). Family is usually the most important thing in everyone's lives and that being taken away is the scariest thing. I would feel such sorrow and I would say that I love them over and over again.

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Amanda Mittendorf p.2

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In Night, Elie Wiesel goes into an explanation about his frightening and cruel experiences he went through. One of these cruel experiences he went through was after Wiesel had gotten to Auschwitz and he had been separated from part of his family. When “The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand” (Wiesel 42) came up to the Jews, including Weisel and “tattooed numbers on our left arm.” (Wiese 42). Weisel’s name “became - 7713.” (Wiesel 42). I assume that Elie felt worthless and not important when his name was stripped away and replaced with a number. He would have felt not important because your name is part of what defines who a person is and with no name you aren’t as unique without it. Also, becoming a number would make Weisel feel worthless because if people just call you a number like all the other Jews, then this means you have no genuine value to the Germans or others. I have had a similar experience to what Weisel went through, this was when I competed in a big ski race. During this race, there were over 50 racers and we had numbers. This made me feel not important because the judges only knew me as a number. The Jewish people at Auschwitz were all given numbers and this was degrading them and making them feel less important.

-Cassandra Blevins

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I think the book is called night because it represents a dark period of time during Elie’s life. Night, in this story represents all the negative things in the story such as death, fear and sorrow. Weisel might have used the words “Night fell” (Weisel, 12)

because it's an example of a telegraphic sentence. Rather than using more words, that may distract  the audience from getting the overarching message. Wiesel uses short bursts of powerful words that help the reader imagine and relate the story. Elie writes about contrasts in the story such as day and night as well as light and dark. This helps dramatize the story, especially because night is such a strong symbol. It also emphasizes the word “night” which makes the story more horrific and scary, even more than it already is.
-saanchitha gurudutt P3

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As the Nazis came into camp numerous times for selection, the Jews must have felt exhausted and terrified every time, knowing they could possibly be sent to their death. Wiesel describes the first time he had to prove he was useful, “My head was spinning...the race seemed endless; I felt as though I had been running for years...at last I arrived. Exhausted” (Wiesel 72). The Jews must have felt worthless because they had to prove to their own persecutors that they could be useful, they had to plead for a reason to live even though they did nothing wrong. Plus, one’s ability to produce and work is not an acceptable method to determine a human being’s value. A person’s worth should be determined based on their compassion or the way they treat other people because not everyone has the ability to work and produce. Inferring that one’s worth is based on how much they can produce is inhumane because it alludes to the fact that life is based on working and laboring and not interaction with others. People who don’t work are not worthless, they deserve as much of a right to live freely as everyone else. The Nazis forcing the Jews to prove that they could be useful was probably extremely mentally deteriorating as Jews had to constantly convince their tormentors that they deserved to live.
-Katherine Nguyen P3

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As a follower of Christ, Wiesel cherishes his family and stays true to their beliefs. He is obviously heartbroken when he’s separated from his family. Wiesel understood he wasn’t alone in his pain, as millions of other families were torn apart by the SS. “Or the countless separations on a single fiery night, the tearing apart of entire families, entire communities?” (Wiesel PDF 12).   If I knew there would be a time without my family, I would spend every single day with them make more fun memories while they last. I would be especially hurt to lose my father; the light and joy of my life. He is definitely my best friend and to lose him would be the end of me. I would tell him how much I love and appreciate him as well as the loving memories we’ve had together. If anything, my dad and I would play the guitar together until he had to leave. Music would be the only thing keeping me sane through times like those.
-Lolo Weaver P.3

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In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Elie asks the question “How could it be possible for [the Nazis] to be burning people - children - and for the world to keep silent?” Mentioned by Elie, the origin of this silence resides with indifference. During his confinement at the camps, the inmates would speak of how “The Red Army was racing”(Wiesel 80) towards their rescue. This was never the case because nobody was truly there other than Elie’s oppressors. This speaks volumes about how indifferent people were, to the point where camp victims felt the need to invent reasons to survive and create the illusion that people cared. Some inmates saw the truth, and it was only a matter of time until “the [annihilation of] all Jews.” They had “more faith in 🤬 than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises…to the Jewish people”(Wiesel 80-81). According to Elie, the reason why tragedies generally occur annually is because of indifference, which is caused by the lack of love in the world and hatred. When someone lacks affection or isn’t loved enough, they turn to unhealthy outlets to alleviate their situation. People who aren’t loved want to feel superior, therefore turning to hatred to vent. Hatred is derived from the indifference people face, which makes indifference equal to silence. People and the whole world refuses to believe in what happened to Elie and eleven million people because of the bystander effect: nobody did anything about it, so nobody believed. People refuse to take action because they ignorantly trust that someone else will replace them. In the end, indifference and silence are not an option if tragedies are to be avoided.~ Emelia Burgess

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This memoir is called Night because night itself symbolizes a world without God. The Bible begins with God’s creation of the Earth and before the Earth there was just darkness, mystery, and God’s absence. I believe Eliezer continued saying, “Night had fallen” (Wiesel 7) to remind himself to not blame God or to not question God for what he was seeing happen to people, because he knew God wasn’t present therefore he couldn’t do anything to help.  The idea of God being absent at night helped Elie to not blame him, to still have faith in God. Although bad things were still occurring during the day Elie knew, “Night was falling” (Wiesel 14). Daytime symbolizes survival, being alive, which is exactly what the Jews were doing at this time, doing whatever they could to stay alive. When we think about daytime we think happy, and nighttime is the opposite- dark. The differences between day and night kept Elie alive. Elie knew God was not to be blamed for the mystery of the night but Elie kept his faith in God which made it able for him to survive during the day.
Mackenzie Maddox P4

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In Night, Elie Wiesel goes into explanation about his frightening and cruel experiences he went through. One of these cruel experiences he went through was after Wiesel had gotten to Auschwitz and he had been separated from part of his family. When “The three “veteran” prisoners, needles in hand” (Wiesel 42) came up to the Jews, including Weisel and “tattooed numbers on our left arm.” (Wiesel 42). Weisel’s name “became - 7713.” (Wiesel 42). I assume that Elie felt worthless and not important, when his name was stripped away and replaced with a number. He would have felt not important because your name is part of what defines who a person is and with no name you aren’t as unique without it. Also, becoming a number would make Weisel feel worthless because if people just call you a number like all the other Jews, then this means you have no genuine value to the Germans or others. I have had a similar experience to what Weisel went through, this was when I competed in a big ski race. During this race there were over 50 racers and we had numbers. This made me feel not important because the judges only knew me as a number. The Jewish people at Auschwitz were all given numbers and this was degrading them and making them feel less important.

-Cassandra Blevins P.4

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The thought of never being to see my family again is one of my biggest fears, as it is something that can happen pretty easy. If I was stripped of family I genuinely believe that I would not function properly. I would feel empty and alone and fear my future, as my family are the people in my life who support me without question. Elie Wiesel’s actions in Night would be similar to what I would do if a situation similar to his presented itself in front of me.  He constantly was thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father”(Wiesel 82). However if I was able to say a few last words to my family before I left, I believe I would be too emotional to say anything. As we have our last embraces, I would hopefully be able to say the words “I love you” and “Be safe” before I left. I would tell them beforehand everything that I am grateful to them for, such as being supportive and giving me the opportunities to thrive.

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The thought of never being to see my family again is one of my biggest fears, as it is something that can happen pretty easy. If I was stripped of family I genuinely believe that I would not function properly. I would feel empty and alone and fear my future, as my family are the people in my life who support me without question. Elie Wiesel’s actions in Night would be similar to what I would do if a situation similar to his presented itself in front of me.  He constantly was thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father”(Wiesel 82). However if I was able to say a few last words to my family before I left, I believe I would be too emotional to say anything. As we have our last embraces, I would hopefully be able to say the words “I love you” and “Be safe” before I left. I would tell them beforehand everything that I am grateful to them for, such as being supportive and giving me the opportunities to thrive.

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The thought of never being to see my family again is one of my biggest fears, as it is something that can happen pretty easy. If I was stripped of family I genuinely believe that I would not function properly. I would feel empty and alone and fear my future, as my family are the people in my life who support me without question. Elie Wiesel’s actions in Night would be similar to what I would do if a situation similar to his presented itself in front of me.  He constantly was thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father”(Wiesel 82). However if I was able to say a few last words to my family before I left, I believe I would be too emotional to say anything. As we have our last embraces, I would hopefully be able to say the words “I love you” and “Be safe” before I left. I would tell them beforehand everything that I am grateful to them for, such as being supportive and giving me the opportunities to thrive.

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The thought of never being to see my family again is one of my biggest fears, as it is something that can happen pretty easy. If I was stripped of family I genuinely believe that I would not function properly. I would feel empty and alone and fear my future, as my family are the people in my life who support me without question. Elie Wiesel’s actions in Night would be similar to what I would do if a situation similar to his presented itself in front of me.  He constantly was thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father”(Wiesel 82). However if I was able to say a few last words to my family before I left, I believe I would be too emotional to say anything. As we have our last embraces, I would hopefully be able to say the words “I love you” and “Be safe” before I left. I would tell them beforehand everything that I am grateful to them for, such as being supportive and giving me the opportunities to thrive.

-Alex G P.4.

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The mindset of every man is similar to the saying, “Survival of the fittest” where the strong will prevail and the weak will be left behind to perish. This thought process can be seen throughout Night as the Jewish are forced into this mindset which determines who will live and who will die. An example of this can be seen when Elie says, “If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself. . . Instantly, I felt ashamed of myself forever” (Weisel 106). This shows that when Elie began to think for himself, he thought to leave his father behind in order to work towards his own benefit of surviving the harsh conditions. This leads to the views of this mindset in today's world which can be seen as selfish. Elie himself realizes that this mindset is selfish to follow because the previous thoughts of leaving his father behind to die only further showed him that it is selfish to only think of himself in these circumstances. In a different scenario, the thought process of every man for themselves should only be utilized when the consequences directly affect the decision maker as opposed to others like Elie’s situation because the other party involved doesn’t have a fair chance to have their say in the decision. The decision maker has to weigh their benefits and consequences that will occur when they make a decision which is why this mindset should only be used when the consequences fall upon them and not others because of their selfishness.

-Anthony Nguyen

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When Elie and the prisoners arrived in the Auschwitz camp, about midway through the novel Night, they were given a number to make organization easier, or so they thought. The numbers were actually a cruel way to strip the Jews of their identities, and thus alienate them from their faith. Elie recounts these moments, when he received his number. He wrote, “In the afternoon, they made us line up. Three prisoners brought a table and some medical instruments. We were told to roll up our left sleeves and file past the table. The three "veteran" prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). At first, Elie and the other prisoners thought nothing of it, as they thought Auschwitz was actually not a bad camp. However, they come to realize that Auschwitz was worse than they could have imagined, and that the numbers were designed to strip their names and identities from them. Jewish culture and identity is extremely strong, being one of the most prominent and interconnected religions to date. Thus, taking away one’s Jewish identity can be one of the cruelest ways to alienate a Jewish person. Elie and the others soon realize they have been alienated, and are dispirited by this. They lose their identity as Jews, and in doing so they feel alienated by God, which was the driving factor keeping them alive during their harsh times in the camps. This caused the Jews to be more likely to simply lose faith in reality and accept death, which is what the Nazis were hoping the numbers would accomplish. Personally, I have never truly felt as though I was a ‘number’ and my identity was stripped away from me. I have always had a strong confidence about who I am as a person and what aspects make me who I am. I tend to take dejection in strides, as I know it makes me stronger to push past them. Therefore, while Elie and the other prisoners succumbed to the Nazi tactic of identity stripping via number assignment, I personally have never experienced even close of the extent that they have.
-Andrew Saska

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The replacement of names with numbers, dehumanized the prisoners in the concentration camps. Prisoners at the camp, “... were told to roll up our left sleeves and file past the table. Three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms… From then on, I had no other name” (Wiesel 42). The numbers are used to identify the prisoners. Taking away someone's name removes a piece of each person, making them less special. People’s individuality makes them feel special, and many take pride in who they are.  Having your name being taken away would make me feel worthless and make me question my identity. Being reduced to just a number can dramatically impact someone’s view of themselves, and their conscience. The use of numbers was a way for the soldiers to oppress and control the prisoners, and it was effective, but cold-hearted. The use of numbers on the prisoners instead of names, was a way to oppress and belittle the prisoners in the camps. -Skyler Phillips

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I find this topic just interesting to talk about, as it’s one that is just really interesting to talk about.  What makes it interesting to me is said by Wiesel himself “ Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?” (Wiesel 42 - pg 33 in PDF).” I can’t speak personally, but the idea of going through such a hard time to the point of losing his or her faith is not too hard to understand. What I find interesting is that Wiesel never lost his faith as he said in his Oprah interview, sure he waved in his relationship but never lost faith. I find this interesting as I think he never lost faith as he wanted to believe there was hope. As history has shown when push comes to shove and disaster hits, most people become religious because they need any type of hope. Wiesel there is no difference. He never lost faith because he wanted to believe there was hope still out there.
-Kristopher C

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If there is one thing that a person needs when growing up, it’s family. To even imagine the possibility of your family getting taken away from you to where you may never see them again, it's something that seemingly only exists in your nightmares. A young Elie Weisel was faced with this horrible event, he did not want to separate, he was given the option by his father, “‘If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one…’ Naturally, we refused to be separated.” (Wiesel 20) But soon to come, they would not have that choice, they would be torn from each other, unknowing of where the others went. I could not imagine my life like this, I would never want to be torn from my family. I’d be wondering every day if they are still alive somewhere out there. If I were in the same situation as Elie was, I don't know if I coil be as strong as he was. He maintained his will to live every day, even when his father, the only connection to his past, died.

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If there is one thing that a person needs when growing up, it’s family. To even imagine the possibility of your family getting taken away from you to where you may never see them again, it's something that seemingly only exists in your nightmares. A young Elie Weisel was faced with this horrible event, he did not want to separate, he was given the option by his father, “‘If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one…’ Naturally, we refused to be separated.” (Wiesel 20) But soon to come, they would not have that choice, they would be torn from each other, unknowing of where the others went. I could not imagine my life like this, I would never want to be torn from my family. I’d be wondering every day if they are still alive somewhere out there. If I were in the same situation as Elie was, I don't know if I could be as strong as he was. He maintained his will to live every day, even when his father, the only connection to his past, died.
- Nathan Smith per. 2

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If there is one thing that a person needs when growing up, it’s family. To even imagine the possibility of your family getting taken away from you to where you may never see them again, it's something that seemingly only exists in your nightmares. A young Elie Weisel was faced with this horrible event, he did not want to separate, he was given the option by his father, “‘If you wish, go there. I shall stay here with your mother and the little one…’ Naturally, we refused to be separated.” (Wiesel 20) But soon to come, they would not have that choice, they would be torn from each other, unknowing of where the others went. I could not imagine my life like this, I would never want to be torn from my family. I’d be wondering every day if they are still alive somewhere out there. If I were in the same situation as Elie was, I don't know if I coil be as strong as he was. He maintained his will to live every day, even when his father, the only connection to his past, died.

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In his first moments of being in Auschwitz Wiesel was forced the leave his mother and his sisters with his father, and at this moment he didn’t truly realize what was happening to him. It was a quick and simple transaction of people being separated from each other, meaning he didn’t have the time to process the last time he saw his mother and his younger sister Tzipora,” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion… There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right. Tzipora was holding Mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away… “ (Wiesel 29). To further answer how I would react to losing my family, I’m going to answer as if I was in the same circumstances as Eli, meaning I would have lost my family immediately. And in this type of situation, I really don’t know what I would do, I would probably say goodbye how my family does with saying I love you, doing the I love you symbol in ASL and a frequent wave as I would most likely think this was just a goodbye for a bit. Once I settled into it and realized I wouldn’t ever see my family again, I would be extremely depressed. As my family is a big part of my life and seeing as I have around over 30 family members (twelve if only consisting of immediate family members) it would be a massive amount of people that just disappeared from my life. 

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In his first moments of being in Auschwitz Wiesel was forced the leave his mother and his sisters with his father, and at this moment he didn’t truly realize what was happening to him. It was a quick and simple transaction of people being separated from each other, meaning he didn’t have the time to process the last time he saw his mother and his younger sister Tzipora,” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion… There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right. Tzipora was holding Mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away… “ (Wiesel 29). To further answer how I would react to losing my family, I’m going to answer as if I was in the same circumstances as Eli, meaning I would have lost my family immediately. And in this type of situation, I really don’t know what I would do, I would probably say goodbye how my family does with saying I love you, doing the I love you symbol in ASL and a frequent wave as I would most likely think this was just a goodbye for a bit. Once I settled into it and realized I wouldn’t ever see my family again, I would be extremely depressed. As my family is a big part of my life and seeing as I have around over 30 family members (twelve if only consisting of immediate family members) it would be a massive amount of people that just disappeared from my life. 

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In his first moments of being in Auschwitz Wiesel was forced the leave his mother and his sisters with his father, and at this moment he didn’t truly realize what was happening to him. It was a quick and simple transaction of people being separated from each other, meaning he didn’t have the time to process the last time he saw his mother and his younger sister Tzipora,” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion… There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right. Tzipora was holding Mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away… “ (Wiesel 29). To further answer how I would react to losing my family, I’m going to answer as if I was in the same circumstances as Eli, meaning I would have lost my family immediately. And in this type of situation, I really don’t know what I would do, I would probably say goodbye how my family does with saying I love you, doing the I love you symbol in ASL and a frequent wave as I would most likely think this was just a goodbye for a bit. Once I settled into it and realized I wouldn’t ever see my family again, I would be extremely depressed. As my family is a big part of my life and seeing as I have around over 30 family members (twelve if only consisting of immediate family members) it would be a massive amount of people that just disappeared from my life. 

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In his first moments of being in Auschwitz Wiesel was forced the leave his mother and his sisters with his father, and at this moment he didn’t truly realize what was happening to him. It was a quick and simple transaction of people being separated from each other, meaning he didn’t have the time to process the last time he saw his mother and his younger sister Tzipora,” Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion… There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone. In a fraction of a second I could see my mother, my sisters, move to the right. Tzipora was holding Mother's hand. I saw them walking farther and farther away… “ (Wiesel 29). To further answer how I would react to losing my family, I’m going to answer as if I was in the same circumstances as Eli, meaning I would have lost my family immediately. And in this type of situation, I really don’t know what I would do, I would probably say goodbye how my family does with saying I love you, doing the I love you symbol in ASL and a frequent wave as I would most likely think this was just a goodbye for a bit. Once I settled into it and realized I wouldn’t ever see my family again, I would be extremely depressed. As my family is a big part of my life and seeing as I have around over 30 family members (twelve if only consisting of immediate family members) it would be a massive amount of people that just disappeared from my life. 

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- Kas G. Wilson
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Throughout the book, Elie slowly comes to realize that when living in the concentration camp one had to prioritize themselves over everyone else. When starving, hard labor, and threatening guards were a daily occurrence, it was hard for the Jews to focus at all on the lives of their fellow inmates. There was nothing any Jew could do for one another since they were always under the threat of immediate execution, so naturally, many prisoners decided to keep to themselves so as not to cause any trouble. Moreover, with starvation running rampant throughout the Jews, their minds became clouded and began to focus on only one thing, food. Hunger drove several Jews in the book crazy, clawing their way to food, at any cost. At one point in the story, bread is thrown into Elie’s cattle car and men instantly swarmed it, beating (and sometimes even killing) anyone who got in the way. One man even goes so far as to kill his own father whose final words were, “Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me ... You' re killing

your father... I have bread...for you too ... for you too…” The notion of every man for himself is insane and dangerous in terms of social life and political rule, however, it does possess some virtue in the area of economics. First, regarding the social and political aspects of society, every man for himself would destroy governments, the system of justice, families, and friendships. People would live selfish lives with the sole focus on one’s own survival and prosperity. Now, in terms of economics, every man for himself reflects the economic system of capitalism which was created for fair opportunities for every individual to rise up the financial ladder based on their own monetary successes. However, when put into practice, capitalism alone has been proven to create huge divides in social classes and leave many jobless and with fewer opportunities to generate wealth. So, with a bit of socialist or communist ideals incorporated into a capitalist economy (like in the U.S.), every man for himself works for the most part quite well. - Ethan Le

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Just like how Elie had Moshie the beadle as his older mentor, I had my science teacher. I had a science teacher in 6th grade and we became close. As I moved onto 7th grade, she always asked if I needed help and helped with every assignment. She told me all about how high school works and how college works. I always helped her with her classes and she always took me on field trips. She was very much like a mentor because she had such a strong influence on me and helped me realize my aspirations in life, because of her I was sure I wanted to change the world using science. She was very understanding especially when I moved away. She constantly texts me and asks me how I am doing since she knew the move was tough for me. Just like how Elie slowly started talking to Moshie and built a relationship, “We spoke that way almost every evening” I built a relationship with my old teacher. (Elie 5).  - Sawer Arman P4

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Just like how Elie had Moshie the beadle as his older mentor, I had my science teacher. I had a science teacher in 6th grade and we became close. As I moved onto 7th grade, she always asked if I needed help and helped with every assignment. She told me all about how high school works and how college works. I always helped her with her classes and she always took me on field trips. She was very much like a mentor because she had such a strong influence on me and helped me realize my aspirations in life, because of her I was sure I wanted to change the world using science. She was very understanding especially when I moved away. She constantly texts me and asks me how I am doing since she knew the move was tough for me. Just like how Elie slowly started talking to Moshie and built a relationship, “We spoke that way almost every evening” I built a relationship with my old teacher. (Elie 5).  - Sawer Arman P4

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Knowing that I’d never see my family again would be a very difficult factor to take in. Family is everything and without them people aren’t themselves, the support that families give to each other is immeasurable and irreplaceable. My life would be filled with sadness and despair, knowing I’d never be able to see my family, as a whole, for the rest of my days. I’m not sure how I’d react at the moment, we might visualize it as being straightforward but at that very moment it would be very difficult, especially in Elie’s circumstances. Not seeing his family ever again, not only because of separation but because they’d never live to see each other again. Elie and his father shared a bond that was very visible during the novel. Elie always wanted his father’s approval before doing something, feeling that he “needed to get [his] father's advice." (Wiesel 55)
This indefinitely shows how important Elie’s father is to him. Even in these disturbing and difficult times where family might’ve been the least to worry about, as survival was the priority, Elie looked to his father for guidance. I do the same thing with both my parents, I ask them for advice when I need it, I just couldn’t imagine Elie’s situation as it would be very difficult.
-Holden Mijares

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Wiesel most likely titled his book Night, as a result of the much darker connotations of the night than other things. The night usually is associated with darkness and the color black, these being commonly associated with “evil” actions like break-ins, murders, or attacks. Along with these connotations, the night is also associated with coldness, which could be used in association with the coldness Elie felt at the camps. So with these darker and colder connotations of the night, it could be seen that Wiesel chose the title Night, to demonstrate the dark purpose/intentions of the camps to the Jewish people. To further to point that Wiesel chose night as the title as a result of the bad connotations with it comes from the quote,” Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky” (Wiesel 34), depicting the scene where Elie was officially in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, where he had to face even more atrocities. Wiesel also used a lot of references tonight, as it adds both dramatics and it adds even more depressive tones to any toxic things that would happen.

-Megan Bui P3

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On the first night at the camp, Eliezer had to witness traumatizing scenes (the main horror being the fire and flames). He stated that this would forever consume his faith meaning his religious beliefs would permanently be changed. I think that this consumption was derived from the haunting views that Elie had to face causing him to question not only God, but himself as well. Having to watch innocent people, children, family/ friends being burned alive changes one’s perspective on life and humanity. These types of situations would automatically strip one of their religious beliefs. For Elie, these moments “murdered [his] God and [his] soul” (Wiesel 34) leaving him with no will to live. He even contemplated killing himself after questioning how God can let this happen. Others had the mindset to simply survive, but people like Elie who had strong faith had a deeper loss: not only were people dying around them, but something else that was extremely important to them was lost as well.
-Demielyn Laluan

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Elie Wiesel stared into the flames, his faith consumed with the countless souls evaporating to smoke. As he looked on he felt the flames burn away his trust in god, he questioned why “the Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” (Wiesel 33). This deeply affected the world of Wiesel. He no longer found faith within his God, as He remained passive and allowed such horrors, so much death, destruction, and despair. Wiesel finds minimal support in his religion, but rather turns to his own self-determination to keep the embers of his life glowing. However, differing from himself the others around him gave up and started repeating the Kaddish, their religion was all they thought about, but their resilience left with the prayer leaving their lips, and they accepted death. Instead of turning away from religion like Wiesel, others tried to cling onto it, to grasp harder onto their religion and did not think about why God would allow such things, they accepted it. They were so immersed within their religion, they did not think about the lives they had, the memories shared, but rather devoted their seemingly last moments practicing religion. Those devoted to their religion who come across horrors such as these lose their will to live as they are traumatized by both what they experienced and the thought that their religion, their life’s foundation may have failed them.

-Shaelyn Spencer

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In the camps, it is said that every man must live only for himself and not care about anyone else. And while some of this advice is true, it is mostly false. You need to be able to care for yourself, especially in a concentration camp because those who you love could be taken from you at any point. However, having someone to fight and stay alive for is one of the strongest forces. While they are running in the snow, Wiesel shares that he wanted to break ranks and give up but his “father’s presence was the only thing that stopped [him]” (Wiesel 86). Fighting for something greater than yourself, like your family, is the reason many survived. When in a situation like this your body will tell you to give up instead of suffer. So it is vital to have a reason to live that isn’t because you don't want to die. Even though there is some truth in that everyone had to be prepared to survive by themselves, having someone to fight with or for, is the most powerful force of survival.
-Ella Parker P.2

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The idea that every man should live for himself is immoral, but in some situations, like the concentration camps, the thought of living for oneself could have been one of the only ways to survive, unless they had someone that they were living for. Some people survived by living solely on apathy, but people, like Elie, only preserved his will to live so that he could be by his father’s side, and when they were on a cattle cart during an evacuation, Elie thought his father died and told himself that “there was no longerany reason to live, any reason to fight”(Wiesel 99), and had to hit his father until he barely woke up enough to show the people throwing the dead people outside that he wasn't dead. Elie, unlike most people, did not take the general’s advice, which helped him to survive longer than he would’ve if he hadn’t. He held on to the belief that his father would survive even when he was in his deathbed, and when Elie knew that it was only a matter of time before his father died, he still tried to give his father his rations when everyone around him was telling him to steal his father’s rations instead. The majority of the people that didn't have anyone to stay alive for died by themselves because they didn't want to keep fighting for their life, which Elie even later admitted that if he didn't have his father by his side, he would have long been dead. The idea of living for oneself could have been a good short term strategy for survival; don't share any food, don't help anybody, and don't waste strength. The idea, however, doesn't help anybody when they need help for themselves and everyone around them has already found someone else to keep living for. The idea of living solely for oneself may seem like a good living strategy but has many faults when it comes to long term survival.

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The idea that every man should live for himself is immoral, but in some situations, like the concentration camps, the thought of living for oneself could have been one of the only ways to survive, unless they had someone that they were living for. Some people survived by living solely on apathy, but people, like Elie, only preserved his will to live so that he could be by his father’s side, and when they were on a cattle cart during an evacuation, Elie thought his father died and told himself that “there was no longerany reason to live, any reason to fight”(Wiesel 99), and had to hit his father until he barely woke up enough to show the people throwing the dead people outside that he wasn't dead. Elie, unlike most people, did not take the general’s advice, which helped him to survive longer than he would’ve if he hadn’t. He held on to the belief that his father would survive even when he was in his deathbed, and when Elie knew that it was only a matter of time before his father died, he still tried to give his father his rations when everyone around him was telling him to steal his father’s rations instead. The majority of the people that didn't have anyone to stay alive for died by themselves because they didn't want to keep fighting for their life, which Elie even later admitted that if he didn't have his father by his side, he would have long been dead. The idea of living for oneself could have been a good short term strategy for survival; don't share any food, don't help anybody, and don't waste strength. The idea, however, doesn't help anybody when they need help for themselves and everyone around them has already found someone else to keep living for. The idea of living solely for oneself may seem like a good living strategy but has many faults when it comes to long term survival.

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-Samantha B
(sorry this is the closest picture I could get for every man for himself)

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Throughout Night, the silence of many allows many more to suffer and die. When Elie Wiesel’s father got up and asked the Nazi guards where the restrooms were located, he was slapped. Elie Wiesel later describes the encounter: “My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent” (Wiesel 39). Wiesel didn’t do anything about his father being beaten and humiliated. Through all the horrible things he had witnessed in such a short amount of time, he had become numb. Also, he stood by and watched for fear of getting beaten himself if he spoke. Today, many people don’t do anything to help others in need. Sometimes they do this for fear of rejection or of being hurt themselves. Other times it is because they are self-centered and try to pretend others’ problems don’t exist, or want to help, but don’t have the means to. There are times I don’t help others because I sometimes feel embarrassed to help others, or don’t want to give up what I have. But, in spite of all the real and imagined excuses we make in order to not speak up and help others, the world still has problems, big and small, that need to be taken care of.

- Justin Kool

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The concentration camps presented unknown challenges for both Wiesel and his family, at first glance staying together was unlikely.  Within minutes of there arrival, the men were forced to the left and the women to the right.  During this commotion, Wiesel realized that this “was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).  Wiesel reluctantly followed his father although, as imagined, he was overcome with fear and wonder just as I would feel if I was forced to leave my family forever.  In Wiesel’s position, he had limited time to react to losing his family, I, in this position would be overcome by both fear, sadness, and anger.  Having little time to react would also slow one’s reaction time, and your response would be delayed. In this position, I feel like I personally wouldn’t be able to comprehend the situation and express my feelings or thoughts to my family members simultaneously.  Although if time was present I would express my love and appreciation for my family members, I would also thank them for their continuous support throughout my life.  I would also, if possible, embrace them in a hug and attempt to thoroughly enjoy our last moments as a family.  Wiesel endured tragic events repeatedly, losing his family must have created unimaginable pain, I cannot truly comprehend that feeling. - Aubrey McKee P3

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It is possible for tragedies such as the Holocaust to occur without intervention from the world because humans are indifferent about something that doesn’t affect them. Every day, individuals are pre-occupied with their duties: work, raising children, preparing meals, and many other tasks. They simply don’t have the time to contemplate the issues around the world and how they can solve these issues. Another factor is the lack of organized movements in order to stop these tragedies; without these, there is no way to draw the public’s attention to the tragedy, and no action will be taken to solve the problem. A final factor causing silence is fear. Many individuals fear taking action due to the repercussions which could befall upon them. An example is when Elie watches his father get beaten; he reflects that he “had watched it all happening without moving. I kept silent … I thought of stealing away in order not to suffer the blows” (Wiesel 54). Even Elie himself feared retribution for standing up for his father, demonstrating how corrosive fear is to one’s strength of character. I personally have taken no action because there is little that a teenager can do to help with these issues. As I am not yet a legal adult, older individuals tend not to take my concerns or my ideas seriously, and the result is a lack of support and options for aiding in causes. Tragedies are occurring right now include this pandemic; there was only a global response because the entire world was affected. When the virus was only in China, France, and other “far away” countries, our nation did little to help because we considered it to be a problem for the affected to deal with.
-Ethan Ho

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One of the hardest struggles in life would have to say one last goodbye to your family. In the beginning, Elie Wiesel was forced to be separated from his mom and sisters being left with only his dad remaining. Wiesel never had the chance to say goodbye to the women of his family and had to be forced to leave them.  During the times, Wiesel stated, "was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).  This quote has a huge impact on Elie Wiesel, he had to suffer with only his dad by his side. Moving on, Wiesel had been separated from his dad, he knew that if he had shown that that was his dad he would have been killed. The smart Wiesel at the young age of 15 had to suffer by himself trying to survive without any of his family members remaining. His dad had called out to him one last time but Wiesel did not respond because he did not want to be known.
-Bryce Davis P4

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I totally agree with your statement, people watch what is going on most of the time and don't say anything. Most people watch the worst things happen to others without calling for help.
-Bryce Davis

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Wiesel’s novel refers back to the word or idea ‘night’ multiple times. Terms that are often categorized with night are evil and darkness. In relation to the book, the ‘evil’ is 🤬 and the Nazis who rain down terror and blood thirst onto the Jewish population. Wiesel says “Night fell” (Wiesel 22), which has a good and bad connotation; night time allowed the Jewish a moment of peace and rest, and to share stories with the others they were stuck with. However, night also symbolized how dark and horrifying said camps were. The irony in the word ‘night’ is that the Jewish viewed night time as a safe place, and day time as a struggle and torture. There is no good in what happened in the camps. The days for the poor people had been filled with torture and heart ache of the feeling of losing a loved one. They’ve had to witness women, children, neighbors and families, murdered, beaten, and burned in front of their very eyes.
-Makenna Keyes P3

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Stamped with a number, the Jewish prisoners within the Nazi concentration camps were viewed, by the officers, as subhuman and unworthy of a name. In Night by Elie Wiesel, he says, “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (Wiesel 42). This is significant as he was stripped of his identification, only to be identified as a meager number making him and the other prisoners feel as if they were unworthy of a name. This may strike anger and frustration among the camp population as they were no longer addressed through a name but were addressed like animals, ones that were only distinguished through unique numbers. This also made the prisoners feel weak and insignificant as they found the Nazis had no respect for their person but only cared for their labor, killing those who had nothing to offer. People may begin to feel like numbers when in large crowds, in long lines, or when they are waiting. This is because their existence is no more important than others, each person is a number in a large crowd unless they stand out, whether it be their personality or their experience. In a long line, someone is a number until they reach the front and when someone waits, they are merely a number until they reach the outcome. Jewish people within these camps were numbered because the Nazis viewed them as weak and insignificant. Being only used for labor, the Nazis did not care who the Jewish people were and counted them as a measure of their labor force within the camps. -EJ Coscolluela P4

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The thought of not being able to see my family ever again is very scary. Unfortunately, this is something that happens frequently in America. Children of Mexican immigrants get ripped out of their parents’ arms as their parents get deported. Although this is a struggle I cannot personally relate to, it pains me to think of it. If I was in the same position as Elie Wiesel, I think I would have the same thoughts as him, constantly thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father” (Wiesel 82). I wouldn’t be able to get my family off of my mind. Fear for not only my own future, but theirs as well, would take over my thoughts. - Ozair Khugyani P2

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The thought of not being able to see my family ever again is very scary. Unfortunately, this is something that happens frequently in America. Children of Mexican immigrants get ripped out of their parents’ arms as their parents get deported. Although this is a struggle I cannot personally relate to, it pains me to think of it. If I was in the same position as Elie Wiesel, I think I would have the same thoughts as him, constantly thinking “about not wanting to be separated from my father” (Wiesel 82). I wouldn’t be able to get my family off of my mind. Fear for not only my own future, but theirs as well, would take over my thoughts. - Ozair Khugyani P2

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If I knew that I was never going to see my family again, I would be devastated and full of sorrow. Throughout my entire life, even when situations got out of control and I underwent many changes, there was always one constant: my family. My family’s bond is so strong and we are almost always together, that it is nearly impossible to imagine life without them. Every member of my family, from my siblings to my great grandparents, have all made a positive impact on me and I love them all so much. I have always had a fear of being alone because my family sticks together so much, so I could feel Eliezer’s pain when his mind was racing with the thought of “All I [Eliezer] could think of was not to lose him [Schlomo]. Not to remain alone” (Wiesel 30). Putting oneself in the moment where Eliezer was “leaving my [Eliezer’s] mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29), is a difficult thing to do because he did not realize that he was never going to see his family ever again. If I were put in a situation where I had to say good-bye to my family for the last time, at least I would be aware of what was happening, which was not the case for Eliezer. He was separated from his mother and sisters, but did not know that the parting at Birkenau was the last he would see of his lovely mother and little Tzipora. I would tell my family that I love them more than they could ever know, thanking them for all they have taught me and guided me through. Additionally, I would tell them to rejoice in the fact that we would all be able to see each other again someday in Heaven. My family is bonded by more than just blood, we are bonded by Christ Jesus. I would rest assured that we are saved, and there will come a day when there are not any more bittersweet good-byes or sadness. Losing my family would be absolutely terrible, but we would indeed be able to see each other again. That reuniting may not take place on this Earth, but it makes it all the better that it will be in Heaven.

-Faith Stewart P3

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In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, he repeatedly mentions the word night. Night is a motif and the title of the book, and it holds importance to him and his story symbolically. The literal meaning of night is the period of day between sunset and sunrise; but for him the sun never rose. His world remained dark because of the holocaust and the inhumane acts toward his family and fellow Jews, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed [...] Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 34). To him, night meant his loss of faith, and night resembled death. Wiesel inevitably lost his faith because he could not understand how anyone could justify letting God turn his back on his people when they needed him the most. Night also resembles death to Wiesel because of the darkness and despair around grievance. Wiesel used the anaphora “never shall I forget” to make his struggle to maintain his faith in God clear. The phrase “seven times sealed” represents a completion in Jewish thought and it goes further to symbolize his unbearable night, and his spiritual crisis. In summation, the inhumanity toward Wiesel and his family caused his “night” to never end.

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In Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, he repeatedly mentions the word night. Night is a motif and the title of the book, and it holds importance to him and his story symbolically. The literal meaning of night is the period of day between sunset and sunrise; but for him the sun never rose. His world remained dark because of the holocaust and the inhumane acts toward his family and fellow Jews, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed [...] Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever” (Wiesel 34). To him, night meant his loss of faith, and night resembled death. Wiesel inevitably lost his faith because he could not understand how anyone could justify letting God turn his back on his people when they needed him the most. Night also resembles death to Wiesel because of the darkness and despair around grievance. Wiesel used the anaphora “never shall I forget” to make his struggle to maintain his faith in God clear. The phrase “seven times sealed” represents a completion in Jewish thought and it goes further to symbolize his unbearable night, and his spiritual crisis. In summation, the inhumanity toward Wiesel and his family caused his “night” to never end.

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Lauren Harrigan

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Eli begins to struggle with his faith because of what he saw on the first night. He walked into the concentration camp and experienced what no one ever wishes to. Eli’s fatih had been changed for good, “ Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke…” (Wiesel 22). Eli’s fatih in his God became consumed when he couldn’t believe that he would allow terrible events to occur to such innocent babies. He had a hard time grasping that the God of his people chose not to help and rather just sat. For religious people like Eli he had always focused his belief into something of a higher power.  He couldn't comprehend how a God of such power would let something like that happen. The traumatic event that Eli experienced left his faith weaker than what it was before he saw what he saw.

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Eli begins to struggle with his faith because of what he saw on the first night. He walked into the concentration camp and experienced what no one ever wishes to. Eli’s fatih had been changed for good, “ Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke…” (Wiesel 22). Eli’s fatih in his God became consumed when he couldn’t believe that he would allow terrible events to occur to such innocent babies. He had a hard time grasping that the God of his people chose not to help and rather just sat. For religious people like Eli he had always focused his belief into something of a higher power.  He couldn't comprehend how a God of such power would let something like that happen. The traumatic event that Eli experienced left his faith weaker than what it was before he saw what he saw.

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Katie Bessemer

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The guard told Eliezer that it is an every man for himself type of situation, and that he must concentrate on his own safety rather than that of others. In this situation, self-preservation and being selfish is the best way to survive, it is survival of the fittest with the most willpower. However, outside of the situation, by no means is this a good way to live. It teaches superiority and priority over fellow humans just trying to make it through life and succeed. The man taught Elie that “there is no such thing as a father, brother, friend”(Wiesel 110) and with this that helping another will only help you achieve death. Every man should be already pushing for themself because it allows the other people around them to focus on themself. However when it comes to situations like Elie’s, how could you dare leave a family member that cannot take care of himself? It is absolutely unthinkable and against what people are always taught, family first. In the end, no one would be able to stay sane if they had not felt like they had done all they could to save a friend, a family member, a brother, and a father in this case, but in a situation like this one must realize the dangers of putting someone above oneself.

-Ethan Tianco P.2

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If I knew I would never see my family again, I would try to make the most of my time I have left with them and make sure they know that I love them. I would have deeper conversations about everything and hug them more. It would make me feel depressed and resentful towards the people that are involved if I knew I would never see my family again. I probably would even go as far as to seek revenge, since I’m the type of person that doesn’t feel satisfied until justice is served. My family has always been there for me when I needed them the most, they never left me lost in a world that I have little experience with. They are the main source of comfort and guidance just like when Elie said “I told him that I needed to get my father’s advice” (Wiesel 55) as he wanted his father to guide him through a decision. The last words I would say to my family would be that I love them and I will never forget their great impact on me because I want to remind them one last time how much they are to me. My family is more than just family, they are my twin flame.
~Amy Guan P4

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The guard who says that is correct that humans should live to please themselves, but forgets that social connections and relationships make people happy. Towards the end of his father’s life, Elie tries to give his father reason to continue fighting through his pain and tells him that they “would be going home together” (Wiesel 108) very soon. Elie could not imagine life without his father. They helped each other survive and towards the end of the novel, they gave each other the will to live. Perhaps it would have been more logical for Elie to forget about his father and steal his rations of food, but he loved his father too much to watch him suffer. They were the only ones bringing a remote sense of happiness to one another. Similarly, it sometimes seems more logical for people today to do what they love all the time, but they do not in order to preserve and create new relationships. Whether it is giving up our free time, watching something different on TV, or going somewhere one has little interest in going, people compromise all the time to preserve relationships that make them happy. This means that in order to live for oneself, one must live for their close friends and loved ones. This guard was ignorant to the way that people only live their life to the fullest is when they live for the ones they love.

Colin Craven P4

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While in the concentration camps, Elie Wiesel is told that he should “stop giving…[his] ration of bread and soup to... [his] old father” (Wiesel 110).  His father was dying and he was giving his ration of food to his father to help him survive. However, many people in the camps thought that Wiesel should take his father’s rations to help save himself. This idea is difficult for me to fully comprehend because I care about my family more than I care about myself. Every man should live for himself to an extent where they are making sure that they are able to survive and stay healthy. That advice can however be wrong because when one has enough resources to support themself and their family, they should do so. One should take care of their family, but not to an extent where they are destroying their own health because to take care of someone, they must be healthy themself. It is important for people to realize that they should support and take care of their family while also making sure that they do not harm themself.
-Harsimran Kaur

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Like Moishe the Beadle, Mrs Schacter serves as a prophetic character who foreshadows the cruelty of the German Nazi Party, and iultimately their death. Both Moishe the Beadle and Mrs Schacter are dismissed for their claims, yet both end up being right, but by that time it is too late for the Jews. As Mrs Schacter is screaming about a fire in the window, nobody believes her and beats her so that she will be silent. “This terrible fire” that she sees and that will soon devour them all is the Auschwitz crematorium. Soon, the rest of the Jews began to see the “flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky” and “in the air, the smell of burning flesh” as well. They did not doubt her exclaims of a fire anymore. If I were on the train and heard her screaming, I would wonder what horrors she had seen to make her so scared. I would think that she must have lived a life of suffering, and if she did, that means she knows what was to come when she cries, “Jews, listen to me, I see a fire! Flames, huge flames!” (Wiesel 25). If I am being honest though, I would probably at first dismiss her as the rest of them did, but in the back of my mind, I would not be able to stop thinking of what she has seen and of what is to come.
-Selena Guzman

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In the book Night characters Elie Weisel and Moishe talk about why Moishe prays, to which he responds “‘I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask him the real questions’” (Weisel 5). Moishes' response to this question was a pivotal moment for the readers, for this conversation was the first of many involving God and the character's beliefs. His answer to the question rings true in many parts of life. No one wants to accept when they are wrong, and some will look to higher figures looking for acceptance and them to say it’s ok. Moishe chooses to answer this way to generalize a broad category of why he prays to God. There can be no specific reason why one devotes their life to another, but instead many that fall under a broad category, in this case that is the strength to ask real questions. This is a very advantageous group to place his feelings towards God in, because he is showing that you need to be true with yourself first and only then can God help you. However Moishe fails to explain that, only after reading more into this line can you see it’s true meaning, instead of Moishe stating that himself. This shows vagueness no one can truly know what he meant, we can only assume based on other stories throughout the novel. 

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In the book Night characters Elie Weisel and Moishe talk about why Moishe prays, to which he responds “‘I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask him the real questions’” (Weisel 5). Moishes' response to this question was a pivotal moment for the readers, for this conversation was the first of many involving God and the character's beliefs. His answer to the question rings true in many parts of life. No one wants to accept when they are wrong, and some will look to higher figures looking for acceptance and them to say it’s ok. Moishe chooses to answer this way to generalize a broad category of why he prays to God. There can be no specific reason why one devotes their life to another, but instead many that fall under a broad category, in this case that is the strength to ask real questions. This is a very advantageous group to place his feelings towards God in, because he is showing that you need to be true with yourself first and only then can God help you. However Moishe fails to explain that, only after reading more into this line can you see it’s true meaning, instead of Moishe stating that himself. This shows vagueness no one can truly know what he meant, we can only assume based on other stories throughout the novel. 

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-Rylee Drelinger

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A number, A-7713 became the identity of Elie Wiesel when he was in Auschwitz. All of those in the camp were identified and marked by a tattooed number as they had no identity while the Hellish camp known as Auschwitz even had a name. The prisoners certainly felt stripped of identity and humanity as they felt themselves transition into nameless statistics with their eyes and feeling the needle of the tattoo piercing both their skin and humanity. Although ink had filled their skin, becoming a number only resulted in emptiness in the prisoners. As their identity had been taken by Auschwitz, in most cases feelings and ambition likely had followed out as well. Even Elie, who persevered throughout his entire time in the camp forgot that he was human before a number because when he got out the camp he witnessed “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me”(Wiesel 115). Becoming a number stripped humanity from Elie as he had his identity taken but simultaneously the SS immediately treated him like a number, something that is not human and is not owed care or empathy. I have in no way been remotely close to the suffering and state of being a victim of sadism that the numbered prisoners of Auschwitz have. The numbers I have become in my life are not anywhere near as significant as the prisoners, but they are still just as real. I am the number on my GPA, a statistic not measured by conscientiousness or morality but ironically more on how I can interact with other numbers among other subjects as well. In a few years I will be the number I can make on salary doing a job I hate to be able to have things I do not need. -Maddux Radabaugh

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If I was being told that I would have to leave my family and it would be the last time I would ever see them, I would be so miserable. Although my family could be different from normal everyday families, there is never a day where we don't have a new experience. I love my family, I love travelling the world with them and experiencing new things along the way, and if I knew that all those adventures were coming to an end and my family was to be taken away too, I would be devastated. If I could say anything to them before they were to leave I would want to thank them for everything they have given me, being by my side for the lowest of lows and the highest of highs in my life, as well as always supporting me. Elie was also very close to his dad and when entering the camp he wanted to stick close to this dad the whole time and protect him, “All I could think of was not to lose him”(Wiesel 30). Family is not only important to Elie but also to many other people as well as myself, for Elie to experience an horrid event in a time where he was so young, I could never imagine what's the feeling of loss.
-Kayla Lam

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Every Man

I believe the guard was right in some ways, but wrong in other ways about how camp survival was every man for himself. When the guard told Wiesel, “it is every man for himself…” (Wiesel 110) in the camps, the guard meant that in order to survive one must only think about his own safety and well-being. In other words, one must prioritize his well-being over his peers. In modern society, this concept is often looked down on as it shows signs of selfishness. In the scenario of Wiesel, I believe that the guard is right in part that if you look out for others before you look for yourself too much, then you will end up dead. However, I disagree with the guard as you cannot just leave your peer dying. For example, Wiesel did not give his father his bread, which was one factors that led to his father dying.
-Kelvin Trinh

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Someone I would classify as my mentor would be my grandma. Whenever I would mess up she would make sure to reassure me that everyone makes mistakes and it wasn’t the end of the world. I have always told my grandmother everything because it is nice to have someone who yes has been that age and learned from their mistakes but also to help me without being rude. My parents are the type to say talk to us about stuff but when you do they get mad at you. I really struggled with that for a while because it was hard and a trust thing, if I ever told my mom something suddenly everyone knew. My grandma on the other hand won’t tell everyone what goes on which helps a lot with getting stuff out. I love how my grandma can reassure me and help me without completely being rude and judgmental about it like other adults/people have been towards my actions in life. My grandma constantly motivates me to do better but when I struggle isn’t disappointed but tries to help. She is my best friend and I love it because if you talk to people your own age about problems they might not know how to handle it. It sort of feels like living the quote ”I succeeded on my own in finding a master for my-self in the person of Moishe the Beadle”(Wiesel 4) because this is probably the best person I could ask for as my mentor.
-Abrianna Jimenez p3

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As Elie and his community traveled to the concentration camps, Mrs. Schachter warns everyone of the “fire” soon to consume them all, stating, "I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!". In this case, Mrs Schachter’s reference is both literal and metaphorical. Unknowingly, Mrs Schachter was foreshadowing her community of the demise the majority of the group would ultimately end up facing. However her real message was of her enlightened realization. Mrs Schachter was voicing out against the Nazi party, and their ultimate rule and tirany they had against the Jewish community and other minorities in Nazi Germany. During the time of the Holocaust, fire to was the ultimate figurehead for destruction and fear. Rather than being a means of hope and light, the Nazis used fire to consume their victims and destroy any and all hopes of their oppressed captives. As a basis in the novel, fire is a threat to any and all hope of the Jewish community, representing horror and destruction, destroying the Jewish community both figuratively and literally. Personally, if I was in the cattle car at the time of her outburst, I’d reflect on what I know about the Nazi party and hopefully realize what’s about to happen. I would also feel sorry for Mrs Schachter, and have empathy toward her for her separation of her family, and hopefully come to realize that she might not be “crazy”.

-Joshua Labrado

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When Wiesel says "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gal-

lows"(Wiesel 65), he is saying that God is dead. Wiesel doesn’t understand God’s silence while his people are suffering. Wiesel interprets this silence as God giving up on the Jews or not even being there in the first place. Soon Wiesel “no longer pleaded for anything”  and realized he “was terribly alone in a world without God” (Wiesel pdf. 23). In this moment Wiesel began to feel stronger than the God he had been worshiping for so long. He couldn’t begin to understand why people still prayed when he felt God was ignoring them.
Lindsey R.

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The idea that the amount a person produces equates to their worth as a human being is disgusting and a crime against humanity itself. The Jews constantly have to prove their ability to produce in order to live in the concentration camps. Although, one could not necessarily call their “living” true living due to the conditions in the camps. Eliezer worries for himself during the selection. His anxiety comes to its height as he describes himself as “too skinny [...] too weak [...] good for the ovens” (Wiesel 72). Eliezer equates his physical capabilities with his worth as a human being in the camps. If he did not do so, he would not survive the harsh conditions of labor and turmoil. However, the Nazis’ way of thinking is wrong. A person’s worth should never be equated to how much they produce. If society as a whole had this way of thinking, disabled people and the elderly would not survive. Every human being is equal in worth and deserves the right to live peacefully, healthily, and happily. The Jewish people faced a dehumanizing environment in the Holocaust. No one should go through such an event where their rights as human beings are taken away. In the essence of society, human beings are social creatures that need each other and have always been shown to care for one another throughout history. They care for their sick, eldery, and poor because they feel each others’ emotions and situations. Humanity must support and love each other in order for all of them, not only a few, to survive. Production has no place in that notion.

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This memoir often refers to and mentions the word night, it being the title of the book, as well as a motif commonly noticed throughout. Elie Wiesel most likely titled his memoir Night because of its symbolic meaning and representation of the evil actions committed against the Jews by the Nazis. The motif is often repeated at times of distress as the day transitions to night to highlight the negativity and oppression of Jews because of their beliefs. One of these times includes when Wiesel states, “Night fell” (Wiesel 12), where the playing of children and cheerful gatherings were suddenly halted as darkness approached. A meeting is then called where the Jews learn of the German occupance. This then switches the Jews to a more worried state, and gives the reader a sense of this feeling through a telegraphic sentence. The difference between day and night, light and darkness, good and evil, and spring and winter are fairly similar. They are closely related to moments of positivity and relief, versus moments of negativity and struggle. In the end, the contrast between moments as such were the difference between their survival or their death.

Sierra Haydel

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I think that living for yourself is a human instinct, it is natural to be selfish. But you cannot let selfishness take over and make you a bad person. Some points in your life where you should be selfish are when you hope to get a job over someone else or when you work hard to beat others in school and sports. But those were two things that wouldn’t destroy the person you’re competing against’s life. It is okay to be selfish if you’re still showing compassion to other people. If you beat a team in sports you should go and shake hands with them after and tell them they did a good job. You should balance your behavior out. I think that the advice Elie was given is wrong when you harm other people, for example the guard told Elie to,”stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore.” (Wiesel 110). This is wrong because even though the food was going to waste, the act of giving the food to his father showed his father that he still cared about him and slightly eased his suffering. Although it was a tough situation, people should always show love to others.

Julia Myers

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Dehumanization is also an extremely important recurring theme in Night. Jewish citizens were given numbers to keep track of them, Elie was knows as A-7713 while in the camps. Elie wrote about when his number was tattooed onto his left arm, “The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Weisel 42). This number was representative of his identity being completely stripped from him, he became an object, only identifiable by his number. Nazi leaders only referred to the prisoners as their numbers, furthering the loss of identity and individuality they faced. This not only made the Jewish people feel less human, it made it easier for the Nazis to torture, abuse, and kill them. For the rest of their lives Jewish citizens will never be rid of the number imprinted on their arm and the horrors it represents to them and their people. 

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Dehumanization is also an extremely important recurring theme in Night. Jewish citizens were given numbers to keep track of them, Elie was knows as A-7713 while in the camps. Elie wrote about when his number was tattooed onto his left arm, “The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (Weisel 42). This number was representative of his identity being completely stripped from him, he became an object, only identifiable by his number. Nazi leaders only referred to the prisoners as their numbers, furthering the loss of identity and individuality they faced. This not only made the Jewish people feel less human, it made it easier for the Nazis to torture, abuse, and kill them. For the rest of their lives Jewish citizens will never be rid of the number imprinted on their arm and the horrors it represents to them and their people. 

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Gwendalyn Colyer

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Well put, family is very important in most peoples lives and it would be devastating to loose them. It's hard to even try to imagine the kind of grief one would feel. 

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Well put, family is very important in most peoples lives and it would be devastating to loose them. It's hard to even try to imagine the kind of grief one would feel. 

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If I knew I was never going to see my family again, my first thought would be “what am I going to do?”  Right from the start, our parents guide us to be the best that we can be. For that to be taken away completely, I would truly feel lost. As Elie exclaimed he “needed to get my father’s advice”, it further proved how strong love of family is. Elie had to be separated from the people that he sees on a daily basis and the thought of that to occur to me is unbearable. Although, my last words to them would be “I love you” and I would keep saying it over and over again. If I knew they would be gone, I would want their last memory of me to be that I loved them. To sum up, I would want to leave my family with a happy memory and hopefully see them smile one last time.
-Barbara McCord P.2

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Throughout the novel Elie Wiesel makes statements that implies that he has lost faith in God. An example of this is when he responds to the man asking where God is by saying that “This is where—hanging here from this gallows…”. When Wiesel says this he means that God is dead. He’s trying to say if there were a God this wouldn’t be taking place. It shows the readers that Wiesel has lost faith in God and believes that he is no different from man. It helps the audience understand the frustration and loss of hope Elie Wiesel and many more felt throughout this time of horror. His whole outlook on life changed based on the horrific things he witnessed. After losing what seems to be everything the question of God even existing does arise many times throughout the novel and plays a key part in Wiesel's young life.

Navdeep Sangha P.3

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If I knew I was never going to see my family again, my first thought would be “what am I going to do?”  Right from the start, our parents guide us to be the best that we can be. For that to be taken away completely, I would truly feel lost. As Elie exclaimed he “needed to get my father’s advice”, it further proved how strong love of family is. Elie had to be separated from the people that he sees on a daily basis and the thought of that to occur to me is unbearable. Although, my last words to them would be “I love you” and I would keep saying it over and over again. If I knew they would be gone, I would want their last memory of me to be that I loved them. To sum up, I would want to leave my family with a happy memory and hopefully see them smile one last time. 

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In the novel “Night”, Elie witnesses many things that break his faith and his spirit when he comes to camp. For instance,“the small faces of children whose bodies...transformed into smoke”(Wiesel 34). In this quote people were set on fire, which is pretty traumatizing for a kid to see. When Elie saw this he couldn’t believe his eyes because innocent children who had done nothing wrong but being a Jew. At this point his spirit and faith are both crushed. The vision of the children were burned into his mind like the Nazis had burned into children. This made Elie question everything he had known because the children who still had a full life ahead of them were killed over a race,  he started to question God. He couldn’t see why God would let this happen, why He would let any of this happen. After this Elie started to question religion and God and even question the people who looked toward God for answers for the hardships they were facing. Elie was consumed with trauma, questions, and the way of things all because of the cruel action of burning innocent people into smoke because they were Jews.

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In the novel “Night”, Elie witnesses many things that break his faith and his spirit when he comes to camp. For instance,“the small faces of children whose bodies...transformed into smoke”(Wiesel 34). In this quote people were set on fire, which is pretty traumatizing for a kid to see. When Elie saw this he couldn’t believe his eyes because innocent children who had done nothing wrong but being a Jew. At this point his spirit and faith are both crushed. The vision of the children were burned into his mind like the Nazis had burned into children. This made Elie question everything he had known because the children who still had a full life ahead of them were killed over a race,  he started to question God. He couldn’t see why God would let this happen, why He would let any of this happen. After this Elie started to question religion and God and even question the people who looked toward God for answers for the hardships they were facing. Elie was consumed with trauma, questions, and the way of things all because of the cruel action of burning innocent people into smoke because they were Jews.

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-Idhika Kaudap

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It is the selfishness of humans that allows suffering and pain to be prolonged. The indifference and silence displayed during the Holocaust is a prime example of said selfishness. Adolf 🤬 and the Nazis were able to succeed in the mass murder of over 6 million Jews. Had other countries taken action earlier on, the “Anguish” (Wiesel 19), these people were put through may have been prevented. In the interview with Oprah Winfrey, Wiesel states “‘When I needed people to come, they didn’t. That’s why I am here.’” As someone who lived an experience where no one helped him, he deeply sympathizes with others and makes an effort to be present, unlike many countries and people in his time of need. The mentality that; because it does not directly affect oneself, means they should not get involved, can be extremely damaging as shown by the Holocaust. The feeling: empathy, is necessary to human life as it allows one to reach different levels of understanding, ultimately leading to a better relationship with every person they meet. Though in some situations, selfishness is necessary, it should be balanced and held to the same importance as compassion and the right moral compass.

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Elie Wiesel’s loss of faith due to the horrific reality of the Holocaust is a common motif throughout Night. Elie and his father witnessed hundreds of men, women and children be burned alive by malicious SS officers; not only did the flames consume innocent people, but “murdered [Elie’s] God and [his] soul” (Wiesel 34). Elie’s first night at Auschwitz stripped away his faith, an integral part of his identity. Elie even refuses to pray as he wonders why God “chose to be silent” (Wiesel 33). Elie no longer finds comfort in his religion and soon completely changes his perspective on the world. For many religious people an event similar to this would understandably leave one without their faith. However, for some like Elie’s father, they would remain true to their religion and continue as a source of comfort. Although Elie still remains to true to his religion later in his life, the Holocaust would forever alter the way he viewed his faith.
-fiji simon

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It is hard to imagine not being able to see my family again. Family shapes the way people live and act, and they are most people’s biggest supporters. My family means everything to me, and I can count on them more than anyone else. If I knew beforehand, I would tell them how much I love and appreciate them, and that I’d do anything to stay with them. Elie talks about how he “didn’t know that this was the moment in time” that he wouldn’t see most of his family for the rest of his life (Wiesel 29). I would already be heartbroken if I knew it was the last time with my family, but it would be even worse if I didn’t have any advanced notice. With my family taken away, I would maintain my faith in God, knowing He is all I have left. I would be angry that such things had to happen to me, but I’d also thank Him for giving me such a loving family and the wonderful opportunities we had.

-Cameron W.

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Struggling to provide his ailing father with sufficient care, the Blockälteste of the block tells Elie that he should stop attending to his dad as the camp is “every man for himself”(Wiesel 110). This mentality could be applied in a situation where everyone around you are strangers as they would practically mean nothing to you, given that you have no idea who they are. However, this is not the case at all for Elie as he has been pretty adamant to sticking with his father no matter what throughout most of the story. People should follow this idea in a way that they control their own life. In a way so that they are not always followers, constantly doing something because someone else told them to do it. I say this due to the fact that your life is solely your own responsibility. No one else is controlling the way you live or act. So with that being said, people should follow this “every man for themself” mentality to fulfill their own destiny, to live in their own spotlight, and to not live in an idea from another person’s mind. However, truly committing to living a lifestyle where you only listen and do what you want will cause you to become overconfident and arrogant. Along with that, if you only have yourself, then you would have no one around you to celebrate the life that you created. And if that’s the case, then what’s the point of living the life that you made ? So, this advice can be flat out wrong in the way that it can cause you to have no one to love or care for, as the only person you ever cared about was yourself. All in all, this motto may work out in certain circumstances, but I disagree as we’re all human beings, we should all strive to help each other out when we can.
-Kenneth Gip

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When Wiesel left his “mother and Tzipora”(Wiesel 29) he did not know”this was The moment in time”(Wiesel 29) he would never see his parents again. He must have felt great despair being separated from the people closest to him. Your parents are people you're supposed to have until your own man, your own person. Wiesel didn’t have that luxury. He had his parents strippped away from him too soon. If I had parents taken from me I wouldn't know how to act. They mean everything to me and I'm miniature versions of. From personality to the way I look It all resembles my parents. They have been my role models from day one, whether on what it's to do or not to do they’ve always steered me right and always want the best for me. I would be extremely sad to have my father taken away from me especially at a young age. I would act out cause I don't know where I would be in life if it wasn’t for them. If I could say anything to them I would thank them for raising me in the best way in such a short amount of time and make them realize how they mean the world to me.