From the beginning of the book‚ it strikes me how brave and passionate Elie Wiesel is. To be a 13-year-old boy and studying the Jewish religion intensely at time when it was dangerous to be Jew shows great passion and dedication to me about his character. His bravery is also shown when on the train to Birkenau and in Auschwitz when in front of his father he continues to stay strong. Reading about how the Jewish people of Sighet had housed Nazis reminds me of the hospitality certain Native American
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different things. In the beginning of the memoir‚ Elie is a deeply religious teenager‚ wanting to really learn more about being a Jew. As the memoir continues Elie’s faith is found within himself. Towards the end of the memoir‚ Elie feels the Hitler is the only person to trust‚ only person keeping their word. Initially‚ the memoir started with Elie as a religious Jew. He was a dedicated man to both his studies and religious faith. As a young man‚ Elie is in search of someone to give him
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life changes when he got into the concentration camp. He was seeing many horrible and deadly events he shouldn’t see at his age. He saw babies being used as target practice‚ people digging their own graves‚ and also people being burned alive. Some Jews in the camp still had their faith‚ but for Elie his faith dropped so much that he never continued to pray. Elie was thinking to himself “his mysterious ways‚ the sins of the Jewish people‚ and the redemption to come. As for me‚ I had to cease to pray
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the future because something like this may happen again. I liked all the messages in the story that were inferred to the reader. Some of these were messages about how horrific it must have been for the Jewish people. Other messages implied that the Jews are still human and are really no different apart from their beliefs. My emotions changed by making me think differently about how bad discrimination can be and how the effects of it can be devastating. This novel really made me think about
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story starts out with the humiliation of the Jews‚ continuing on until they are eventually carted off to various labor camps. We meet Schindler‚ a man who is well-off‚ who uses Jews for cheap labor‚ until they are taken from them. Being a decent businessman‚ he then decided to go into the ?labor camp? business. Eventually‚ he was forced to buy off as many Jews as he could‚ for labor purposes‚ eventually seeing this as a chance to save the lives of as many Jews as possible. He then set up this production
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out from the other characters because‚ even though she’s not in the whole book she still affects the decisions Chana makes in the rest of the story. Also‚ when Anya’s family is in need she went through the garbage with some of the other struggling Jews in the ghetto to find coal or sometimes even gold. With these items she would sell them to people to get money‚ food or clothing for her family. Flaws that Anya has would be not understanding the war which frustrates Chana because the war killed their
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can he call Shylock coldhearted when he and many other characters constantly jeer at Shylock. This also added reason for Shylock’s revenge. He wasn’t a bloodthirsty miscreant‚ but a Jew fighting for revenge against years of being spet upon‚ being treated like a dog‚ being a victim to Christianity. In his "I am a Jew" speech‚ he gives these precise reasoning‚ saying "to bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else‚ it will feed my revenge" (Act 3‚ Scene 1). He doesn’t seek revenge personally against
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or by informal pressure‚ to live in highly segregated ghettos and shelters in the time of Adolf Hitler. The forced segregation of Jews spread throughout Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries and at this time the papacy required Jews to segregate themselves from Christians and to wear distinctive clothing. In the middle of the 19th century‚ it was stated that Jews were obliged to live in a separate part of town for they were considered as unclean creatures. It is due to conflict that issues of
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the book’s history called “The Troubles” where everyone in the world blamed Jewish people for a series of disasters. When Malkah tells Yod her story she tells him of a massacre in the Jew town of Prague‚ how Jews were exiled and their culture destroyed‚ as well as Jews having to pay a tax on their right to live. Jews
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anti-Semitic remarks made against the Jewish community‚ his bouts with alcoholism and his well deserved reputation as a womanizer. There were also some sexist comments about business women. All his life‚ he was often accused of anti-Semitism. He said that Jews people take up too much space in Quebec economy‚ those comment offended Montreal ’s Jewish
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