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. Despite the fact that he also endures suffering at the hands of his captors, Idek has absolutely no compassion for the workers in his unit.
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The answers to the biggest questions we have about identity, story, and God can only be answered in relation to memory. Without memory, we are forced to rely solely on ideas and suggestions to make sense of who we are, as opposed to the concrete.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Eliezer is more than just a traditional protagonist; his direct experience is the entire substance of Night. He tells his story in a highly subjective, first-person, autobiographical voice, and, as a result, we get an intimate, personal account of the Holocaust through direct descriptive language.
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he uses violence towards others as an outlet for his anger and despair.
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God’s first act is to create light and dispel this darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence.
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He changes along side Elie throughout the book as they both experience the horrors within the Holocaus
Mr. Wiesel
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His commitment to his father also reminds him of his own humanity, of the goodness left in his heart. All around him, he sees fellow prisoners descending to the deepest depths of selfishness and cruelty, but his relationship to his father reminds him that there is life outside of the Holocaust, and a set of fundamental moral values that transcends ... See more
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"It's over. God is no longer with us."