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Main Idea: Inhumanity

Elie Wiesel’s Night develops the main idea of inhumanity by continuously showing the effects of cruelty. Throughout the memoir the roles of victim and oppressor are continually defined and redefined as the nightmarish conditions cause people to act in ways that are out of the ordinary.

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Main Idea: Inhumanity

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  1. Elie Wiesel’s Night develops the main idea of inhumanity by continuously showing the effects of cruelty. Throughout the memoir the roles of victim and oppressor are continually defined and redefined as the nightmarish conditions cause people to act in ways that are out of the ordinary. By the end of the memoir the author literally does not recognize who and what he has become. Main Idea: Inhumanity

  2. Text-to-Self Connection: Burden Caring for a loved one can be a burden. Despite being tested by hunger, hardship, and cruelty, Elie’s relation with his father somehow endures where others do not. The encouragement and self-sacrifice demonstrated by Elie’s father represents the dutiful love of parent.

  3. Text-to-World: Adversity Elie does not credit his survival to any form of personal strength—indeed he does not understand why he survived. Remarkably, Elie loves his father until the end; the Nazis cannot destroy this love. This makes me think thatadversity does not make a person who they are but instead reveals their true nature.

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