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Allusion In Night

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There aren't many types of people during World War Two. The people who died, and the people who didn’t. In the book Night, Elie was in the fright of his life when the Nazis took them to the concentration camp. A lot of bad things happened at the camp. Sickness and even death were some things that you would find there. It was to the point Elie started questioning things. First, Ellie had gotten to the camp and gave up because of what they were already going through. One of his direct quotes “For God's sake, where is God?" And from within me, I heard a voice answer: "Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows."(65) shows how he was asking for God. He was desperate for answers. He was struggling to find the answers about why

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