Discrimination In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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In reality people from all over the world get discriminated by their race, skin color, gender, language, religion, opinion, and many more. Discriminating someone because of their ethnic background. Throughout the story of “Night” Eliezer was assume as a jew, but he wasn’t. The germans wanted to execute all the Jews that was seen. For an example in the story it said, “Then one day, they expelled all the foreign Jews from Sighet and I was considered as a foreigner”. From this information Eliezer was accused of being a foreign Jew.

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