emma+jane

 **__NIGHT ESSAY__**  Elie Wiesel, a young boy who survived the holocaust and lived to tell the tale, wrote a novel based on his experience, titled ‘//Night’//. The title and the many references to the term night in the novel demonstrates the never-ending terrors, the constant fear for his life and his battle to regain all humanity that was stolen from him the moment he was placed into the Nazi concentration camps as a child. “The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples.” [Pg 16]. Elie uses this quote to show just how brutal and careless the Hungarian police and any other SS officers were. Was there any need to be violent towards the Jews? Do they expect a cripple to fight back? And what about the poor little children? Of course they didn’t care. They weren’t the ones who were suffering all because they didnt fit a norm that a tainted dictator decided on, Hitler used and abused his power, as did every other officer, soldier and guard under his authority. “No one was praying for the night to pass quickly.” [Pg. 21]. Although the prisoners felt night time was safer than during the day, there was the constant thought of what the next day would entail. This quote demonstrates the never ending terrors the Jews and other prisoners faced, many horrific beatings, being treated as though they were another species all together. Each person in the concentration camps experienced the same fears. To Elie night time was just as painful as during the day as he was able to think about the day ahead of him, and what could happen. Also night time gave him the opportunity to realise just how much his world had been turned upside down by the Nazi party under Hitler’s rein. Although there are many significant quotes in the book there is one that demonstrates the effects the conditions Elie was forced to live under. "We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left. And again the night would be long." [Pg. 98]. Each long day, each long night, with little food, little warmth. Who knew if it was their last day or night? Night time carried many worries for the prisoners, if the temperature alone wasn’t going to kill them, it may have been the officers coming in the morning to wake them up if they had done something wrong. As horrible as the days were the nights were just as bad in many ways. Most people see night time as resting time, not Ellie and the other prisoners. Many people who were victims or survivors of the Holocaust can relate to Ellie’s story. The title '//Night'// and the many references to the term throughout the novel symbolize so many things to Ellie. Night symbolized fear, death, darkness and inhumanity.  ====**__JUDAISM __** Judaism is a monotheistic  religion based on principles and ethics embodied in the Hebrew Bible  ( Tanakh ), as further explored and explained in the Talmud <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and other texts. Judaism is among the oldest religious traditions still being practiced today. Jewish history and the principles and ethics of Judaism have influenced other religions, such as <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Christianity <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Islam <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and the <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bahá'í Faith. ====