night by elie wiesel. born september 30, 1928 mother & youngest sister died in auschwitz. father...
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NightBy
Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel•Born September 30, 1928•Mother & youngest sister died in Auschwitz.
•Father died in Buchenwald.•Elie lived in French orphanage for several years.
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Elie Wiesel•Two surviving sisters saw his picture, reunited.
•10 year vow of silence regarding Holocaust.
•Nobel laureate writer Francois Mauriac encouraged him to write.
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Elie Wiesel•Night appeared in 1956 in Yiddish.
•Translated into English in 1960.
•Sales have exceeded 1 million copies.
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Elie Wiesel“[I have a] conviction that man must impose a meaning upon events that perhaps have none…I am absolutely convinced even when faith is impossible; you must make it possible.”
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Plot and Setting•Begins 1941, Hungarian town of Sighet.
•German arrival in 1944•Birkenau-Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald.
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Point of View•First person: narrator a teen age boy.
•Told chronologically.
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Major Characters•Eliezer: teen age boy.•Chlomo Wiesel: his father.
•Moche the Beadle
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Minor Characters
•Madame Schachter•Akibe Drummer•Rabbi Eliahou•Juliek
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Themes•Self-preservation versus family commitment.
•Dignity in the face of inhuman cruelty.
•Struggle to maintain faith.
•Emotional death.
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Motifs•Night.•Eyes.
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Tone•Personal but objective.•Profoundly sad.•Quietly dignified.