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Book Report Night By Elie Wiesel

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Lucia Mantero
Mrs. Eschmann
World Literature
October 7, 2014
Eliezer
When the book begins, Eliezer is young and innocent. He studies Talmud by day and Kabbalah by night. When Eliezer enters the concentration camp, he loses his mother and little sister and witnesses people being killed in cruel ways. His childhood and innocence gone, his faith in God’s justice and mercy destroyed. As his father becomes weak, Eliezer begins to feel his father as a burden limiting his own chances of survival. Unlike other sons in the concentration camps who ignore their fathers, Eliezer never leaves his father. He nurses his him when he is ill, defends him against bullies, and struggles to keep him alive. Most of the time, Eliezer isn’t thinking of leaving his father, but of how to stop from losing him. Eliezer doesn’t tell us about his last experiences because to him, nothing mattered once his father had passed away. Our …show more content…

He is a poor, foreign Jew who lives in the town of Sighet. Moshe represents a commitment to Judaism. He becomes friends with Eliezer to teach him Kabbalah. One day, the Hungarian police take all the foreign Jews from Sighet. Moishe the Beadle being a foreigner, is also taken away with the others. After several months passed, Moshe returns to Sighet to warn the Jews of Sighet of the coming danger. He talks about strange, mysterious, and horrible things that he has seen, warning his people of the dangers to come, but nobody gives him the time of day. Sagittarius value knowledge. Philosophy and religion interests Sagittarius. The words spoken by Sagittarius inspire and motivate others. Sagittarius is self-confident and high-spirited. I think Moshe the Beatle is a Sagittarius because he taught Eliezer about religion and he valued the knowledge he gave him. When they took him to the concentration camps and he returned, he was confident about what he knew and was saying even though everyone thought he was

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