The Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night Themes Do you know how many Jews died in the Holocaust? World war 2 caused the deaths of 1.1million jews. Elie Wiesel was one of the survivors of the Holocaust and lived to tell his story and experiences to the world.In the book called Night, Elie tells about his experiences during world war 2 in the concentration camps. The 3 main the themes Elie talks about in his story is Hope, Terror, and Loss. Terror is ann intense, overpowering fear. One of the examples of terror from the book that Elie talks about, he tells us he watched as they Threw babies and small children in a fire.This is an example of terror because it is a terrible and horrific sight to see children be burned in a fire.Another example of terror is that some of the Jews

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