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The book Night, by Eliezer Wiesel is the focus of this assignment by Tyler Jundt.

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"How can one person make a difference in his/her society?" You can make a difference in society by not being silent. If you speak up, you really can change things. The key to making a difference is not letting yourself be silent.

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Night teaches us a lesson about silence, and we should do out best to heed its warning. You shouldn't remain silent when danger approaches you. Night teaches us that we must stand up for what we see that's wrong. If something needs to be done, we have to get it done. We can't just be silent.

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Elie changes throughout the book, and the main way he does is by speaking up instead of being silent. In the later parts of the book, Elie learns how to stand up for himself instead of quietly accepting what happens. He grows as a person, and the main way he does is by refusing to be silent.

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The theme I discovered while reading Night is silence. Throughout the book, silence affects many people, and often not for the better.

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"My father had just been struck, before my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid." (Page 36). This is Elie's first big silence, and one of the most important. He lets his father be abused and does not stop it. He's silent, like the theme of the book. He would continue this pattern throughout the book.

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On page 48, Elie says that when his father was beat by Idek, all he did was "[think] of how to get farther way so that I would not be hit myself.” Within 8 pages, Elie witnesses his father being beat again, and does nothing about it again. Again, Elie was silent, like the theme suggests.

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"Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” (Page 32). Elie remembers the immense depression he felt, and the immense power of silence that the book displays.

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On page 88, Elie says that he started yelling at his father to wake up, and at the men planning to seize him. It worked, and his father was not thrown out of the train. When Elie begins to shout instead of being silent, and gets his father's attention when he needed it, he made a difference. He made a difference because he wasn't silent.