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This can relate to EQ 2 because in The Boy with the Striped Pajamas because the boy was very optimistic in that he never gave up hope to get out or he saw it like a game, which could be child-like delusion but even still, he chose hope in the face of adversity.

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There are so many examples of events that could be considered as modern day holocausts yet we know barely anything. Right now Muslims are being held in concentrations camp in China, and we are not doing anything. I think this goes into Wiesel's main purpose for writing his memoir. To share his horrible experiences and to spread awareness in hopes that something like that never happens again. He spoke a lot about the effects of indifference yet we continue to show indifference to communities and groups of people who need our help.

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Night reminds me of what is happening right now in China. They may not be killing as many people, but we will never know because they are not honest with information. They are putting people in these camps to "re-educate" them to think differently. The Chinese government wants them to forget their religion, culture, or any other thought that is not inline with the Chinese government.

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China has built nearly 400 internment camps used to detain Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, an Australian think tank has found.

Chinese authorities had previously said their "re-education" system was winding down, claiming those held there had "graduated", but satellite imaging obtained by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) revealed 14 camps are still under construction.

A total of 380 detention centres have been identified across the region since 2017, over 100 more camps than previous investigations had revealed. Several existing facilities have expanded, about half of which are higher security facilities.

According to the think tank's Xinjiang Data Project, this may suggest a "shift in usage from lower-security, 're-education centres' towards higher-security prison-style facilities".

The database, mapped and analysed by researchers at the institute's International Cyber Policy Centre, is the most comprehensive data on Xinjiang's detention system in the world.

Nathan Ruser, a researcher at ASPI, said: "The evidence in this database shows that despite Chinese officials' claims about detainees graduating from the camps, significant investment in the construction of new detention facilities has continued throughout 2019 and 2020.

"At least 60 facilities have seen new construction in the months leading up to and since that claim, and 14 facilities remain under construction, according to the latest satellite imagery available."

One of the centres is a new 60-acre detention camp in Kashgar that includes 13 five-storey residential buildings, covering about 100,000 sq m of floor space. The camp, completed as recently as January, is surrounded by a 14m-high wall and watchtowers.

The institute also found that new buildings were added to the region's largest camp last year, in Dabancheng near Urumqi, stretching over 1km.

Satellite data showed about 70 camps had their internal fencing or perimeter walls removed, including eight camps that showed signs of being decommissioned. Nine in 10 "desecuritised" sites are lower-security ones.

Researchers said that examining night-time satellite imagery from Xinjiang was a particularly effective method in compiling the database as it showed newly illuminated areas outside towns where detention centres were being built, while daytime images gave a clearer picture of construction.

Beijing insists the "re-education" camps help the people detained there, claiming the Uighur Muslims and ethnic Kazakhs held in them had found "stable employment and improved the quality of their life" with the help of the Chinese government.

But the predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities from the region say their family members are arbitrarily detained in the camps and prisons, where they are made to study Mandarin, law, vocational skills and deradicalisation.

Chinese authorities have denied journalists, human-rights groups and diplomats access to the camps, casting doubt on the freedom Beijing claims those detained have. Human-rights groups have said at least a million people have been incarcerated every year.

The report comes as the US passed a bill threatening sanctions over the alleged use of forced labour in the Xinjiang region.

The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to declare that any goods produced in Xinjiang are presumptively made with the forced labour of detained Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, and are therefore banned from being imported to the US.

China has reacted angrily, saying the bill "maliciously slandered the human-rights situation in Xinjiang".

Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters: "The so-called problem of forced labour is totally a lie, fabricated by some organisations and personnel in the United States and the West."

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China has built nearly 400 internment camps used to detain Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, an Australian think tank has found. Chinese authorities had previously said their "re-education" system was winding down, claiming those held there had "graduated", but satellite imaging obtained by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) revealed 14 camps are still under construction.

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1. Prayers like Shoes
Poem by Ruth Foreman
--The significance of shoes in Prayers like Shoes is somewhat similar to their symbolic meaning in Night. Ruth Foreman discusses in the poem how keeping faith helped her mother remain hopeful and persevere during hard times, similarly to how Wiesel's shoes were a comfort to him while they were in his possession.
https://asitoughttobe.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-prayers-like-shoes/

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Inhumanity, is a big part of the Novel. When Mr. Wiesel has been living at the concertation camp, the threats to be shot like dogs are a huge form of inhumanity and the dehumanization.

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

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The song "Where is the love?" by the black eyed peas connects to this novel by prejudices as well as the beginnings of racism. The song talks about the constant issues we have in this country constantly asking what happened to the country that everyone once felt loved in. It connects to Elie Wiesel's novel because he had wondered somewhat the same things, why hadn't someone been there to help. Where had the love for everyone gone?

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The movie "The Platform" contains themes of abuse and oppression similar to the themes found in Night. The Platform is a representation for the selfish nature of people and the extensive measures people will take for self-preservation. In the movie, prisoners are placed in a vertical cell with more than 200 levels. Each day, a platform filled with food is lowered to each cell. However, each time the platform of food descends, there is less and less food. As a result, those near the bottom end up starving while those on the first few levels stuff their faces and take more than what they need. One of the characters who was once near the very bottom understood how difficult it was being on the lower level. So when he reached the top he realized that the only way others could survive was if everyone was less selfish and more considerate. In Night, we see a series of events where the prisoners of the camp are willing to violate their conscience and morals to survive. The theme of self preservation over humanity of others is all too prevalent in the real world as well as the book Night. Wiesel revisits the time two fellow prisoners participated in hanging a fellow prisoner in exchange for bread. He also recalls watching people beat up Madam Schachter because she was telling the Jews there was a fire.

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The movie "Unbroken" which is the Louis Zamperini movie, showcases the lifestyle of being in a Japanese POW camp. That is why I feel like there is a relative vibe from it. Louis was badly beaten and almost killed time after time again. He also got even worst treatment since he used to be a track star at USC. He had to be in a concentration camp for a really long time.

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In the movie the Imitation Game, a man named Alan Turing shows the roots and ramifications of prejudice, apathy, and violence. He states, “Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.” Turing was different growing up, which created prejudice and apathy from the other students. They were violent towards him, but once he stopped giving a reaction they were concerned. In Night, the Kapos are also violent towards the prisoners, but the lengths of violence that they go to are really deep, and it makes them have the satisfaction of feeling powerful. If one were to remove the feeling of power and satisfaction, the Kapos would not continue the barbaric behavior.

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THE IMITATION GAME - Official UK Trailer - Starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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I think the movie Hotel Rwanda and Night share similar themes of inequality and mistreatment of people based on prejudice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQP0TJkH9es&has_verified=1

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I personally think that Night has a connection to The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas. I think it connects to the theme by both of them expressing dehumanization and relationships between friends and family. In both stories they are young kids going through a dramatic experience which causes them to be in so much pain.

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https://poets.org/poem/death-fugue   This poem connects to our unit because it's about the holocaust. It uses a symbol of night, and other times of day, such as "noontime" and "dawn time." The book we are reading, Night, also uses these symbols.

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Black milk of morning we drink you evenings
we drink you at noon and mornings we drink you at night
we drink and we drink
A man lives in the house he plays with the snakes he writes
he writes when it darkens to Deutschland your golden hair Margarete
he writes and steps in front of his house and the stars glisten and he whistles his dogs to come
he whistles his jews to appear let a grave be dug in the earth
he commands us play up for the dance

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night
we drink you mornings and noontime we drink you evenings
we drink and we drink
A man lives in the house he plays with the snakes he writes
he writes when it turns dark to Deutschland your golden hair Margarete
Your ashen hair Shulamit we dig a grave in the air there one lies at ease

Black milk of dawn we drink you at night
we drink you at noon death is a master from Deutschland
we drink you evenings and mornings we drink and drink
death is a master from Deutschland his eye is blue
he strikes you with lead bullets his aim is true
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
he sets his dogs on us he gifts us a grave in the air
he plays with the snakes and dreams death is a master from Deutschland

your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamit
Todesfuge
Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken sie abends
wir trinken sie mittags und morgens wir trinken sie nachts
wir trinken und trinken
wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lüften da liegt man nicht eng
Ein Mann wohnt im Haus der spielt mit den Schlangen der schreibt
der schreibt wenn es dunkelt nach Deutschland dein goldenes Haar Margarete
er schreibt es und tritt vor das Haus und es blitzen die Sterne er pfeift seine Rüden herbei
er pfeift seine Juden hervor läßt schaufeln ein Grab in der Erde

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts
wir trinken dich morgens und mittags wir trinken dich abends
wir trinken und trinken
Ein Mann wohnt im Haus der spielt mit den Schlangen der schreibt
der schreibt wenn es dunkelt nach Deutschland dein goldenes Haar Margarete
Dein aschenes Haar Sulamith wir schaufeln ein Grab in den Lüften da liegt man nicht eng

Schwarze Milch der Frühe wir trinken dich nachts
wir trinken dich mittags der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
wir trinken dich abends und morgens wir trinken und trinken
er Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland sein Auge ist blau
er trifft dich mit bleierner Kugel er trifft dich genau
ein Mann wohnt im Haus dein goldenes Haar Margarete

er hetzt seine Rüden auf uns er schenkt uns ein Grab in der Luft
er spielt mit den Schlangen und träumet der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland

dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Sulamith

Copyright © 2020 by Pierre Joris. From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Used with the permission of the translator.

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Death Fugue - Black milk of morning we drink you evenings

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https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/aug/25/elie-wiesel-night-jewish-identity-amnesty-teen-takeover-2014
This site goes in depth about preserving Jewish Identity and talks about the relation with Eliezer Wiesel.

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Reading through the novel I also noticed many similar connections to the film, the boy in the striped pajamas. Im glad to have watched that movie before reading so I can have a visual summary of what occurs in Night. Though, another connection to Night is one of the options for the summer reading. Just mercy tackled the oppression that people of color faced, Night also portrays the oppression and dehumanization of people who are innocent.

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Growing up I heard and learned about the stories Anne Frank wrote in her journal. I haven't read many of her entries, or at least not for a while, but I do find it fascinating to think about what Anne is writing compared to what Wiesel is going through. There are so many stories of jews who went through largely traumatic events, and it's very interesting to think about these stories both together and individually.

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I think there are a few connections that can be made. Like Janine said, there is a lot going on in china with the Uighur concentration camps. From what I have heard and read they are being forced to do things like eat pork and some are being forced into marriages. I also think that this can be connected back to a book "All the Light we Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr. The book follows a German boy during WW2 and his experience being forced into the Nazi Party. Where I think there are some more similarities is when the story talks about its other main character. She is a blind French girl who is forced away from her family because of the war. She also has to experience the loss of her mother as well as everything she once knew. Her life is slowly stripped away from her as she is forced to sit there and watch. Furthermore, I think parts of this book can be connected to what is going on at the US/Mexico Border. There are camps where people are kept and dehumanized. Though they are not as bad as what happens in Night, some similarities can be made.

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The Night reminds me a lot of The Book Thief (a book I read in 8th grade for English). Both are about the Nazis, except The Book Thief is in the narrative of a young girl instead (different perspective). The Book Thief focuses a bit more on the bombing of the Jews' synagogues.

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An article by Cambridge University Press suggests some ideas about the origins of racial prejudice using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The article concludes off of several surveys that, "results indicate that racial apathy, indifference towards racial and ethnic inequality, is a relatively new but expanding form of racial prejudice". The article brings up the word of "White ignorance" where white people do not know or realize the racial injustice and not caring about it. This conclusion is very similar to the prejudice among the Jews and the prejudice from the Nazi soldiers to the Jews. They stop or never decide to look at the racial injustice, consequently becoming the origin of it and not being able to fix it.

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there is this song called the wall that i danced to for a performance. The song has a great significant meaning of the harsh conditions one is put through during dehumanization and revealed the importance of needing courage and support from one another when attempting to push through all of the sorrow and cruel actions of the world. I learned a lot about how tough it was for people to continue in positive ways when injustice was forced onto them based on the rules of society strictly among people of color and how chaotic is was for people to seek freedom from that song.

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It may be obvious but The Boy with the Striped Pajamas reminds me of Night just because they're both about the Holocaust but they both show different perspectives of the same experience and time which is interesting.

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This image reminds me of the theme that relates to cruel power or the abuse of power that they face at the concentration camps. In this instance it is the Uighur's in China facing the same as the Jews did. The government is abusing their power in order to "cleanse" these people.

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End of China's labour camps won't halt government abuse of power

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End of China's labour camps won't halt government abuse of power

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I think there are a lot of similarities between Night by Elie Wiesel and The Boy in The Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne. They both involve young children being exposed to the horrors of concentration camps. When they're first exposed to it, they have no clue what's going on. But their view widens as the story goes on.

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Martin Luther king Jr speech I have Dream relates to Night because they both explain the oppression that their people had to face. Both of the authors were oppressed by the majority who worked them to exhaustion, over worked them and killed them.

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https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
For me, the "I Have A Dream" speech immediately came to mind when thinking of themes in Night, due to the fight for freedom and hope Martin Luther King Jr had for his people facing oppression and injustice, and how he had the dream for a better future.  This connects to the essential question of "How does one choose hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and
oppression?" where people in Night held onto those close to them, and kept hope through the dark times through each other, allowing them to dream of a better future

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Apathy: Song by Subhumans. The song describes how an apathetic public turns a blind eyes to bombs, war, famine, and death. "An apathetic public couldn't care less." This relates to the text heavily because apathy is a catalyst for human destruction, as well as indifference to pressing issues.

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The Pianist by Roman Polanski. It's a movie following the holocaust from the point of view of a polish musician and how he survived. It's a true story just like Night and gives another perspective to the tragic events. Towards the end of the movie, a turning point happens when the opposite side helps out the main character, and connects to essential question how is empathy a seed of social action.