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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Life in concentration camps brought the struggle between life and death, so Wiesel writes Night to share about his experience in a life or death situation he encountered with his father during one of the selections they went through. Wiesel starts out by saying,“The roll call was shorter than usual. The evening soup was distributed at great speed, swallowed as quickly. We were anxious.” As time went on, the conditions in the concentration camps began to grow more dreadful. The duration of time shows the worriedness shared among everyone in the concentration camp because of how the flow of everyday life for them was drastically changing. Different sorts of emotions are shared throughout the text, “I began to laugh. I was happy… They had not

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