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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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To begin, our interactions define us when we believe in a religion because it is what we have hope and faith in. In the excerpt “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie is in a concentration camp where he begins to lose his faith in God because he has seen things that he wished he had not. The texts says, “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever ”(Wiesel 37). What this quote shows is throughout the time when Elie was at the concentration camp he saw the way people were being burned alive and thrown into the flames. This shows interactions by how the Jews were treated in a negative way. What Elie learns from these interactions are that he will never forget everything that has happened to him and the other people. This is important

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