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Night: A Summary

During World War II, Hitler formed many concentration camps throughout Germany and Poland. In these camps the people imprisoned, mainly of Jewish or Gypsy descent, were tortured, starved, put through horrific conditions, killed, and worked to death. One of these prisoners who lived was Elie Wiesel. In Night he tells the story of his Nazi imprisonment. Many themes are found throughout the story especially death, faith, and survival. I have chosen two minor themes to write about from the story they are fire and the relationship between father and son.
The autobiography tells how the Nazi police set up ghettos where they kept the Jews. Elie and his family were basically kept captive in this ...

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his son Isaac by fire. But God stopped him. I'm sure that as Elie moved forward in the line that he thought that the Nazis were using fire for something God hadn't intended. He was also angry at God for allowing them to use fire in such a horrible way. God daved Isaac, why couldn't he save them? Although Wiesel doesn't make note of it, several other Holocast survivors say that although the fire was awful due to the smell of the burning bodies, it kept them warm in the frigid cold even at a far distance. Fore represented not only death but also fear, suffering, hatred, and destruction. To the Nazi's however. it represented a source of power against the Jewish people. I feel this point was very accurate as to the way the Jews actually felt. Ellen Fine wrote "The theme of fire is present, indeed, throughout the text, from the half burned candles of the synagogue, where Elieser and Moche attempt to illuminate the mysteries of ther universe, to the relentless sun of the ...

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Added: 3/26/2006 03:48:14 PM
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