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Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel [a] (September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Not to be confused with an organizational sentence, a thesis merely states "The book Night follows Elie Wiesel's journey from innocence to experience," while an organizational sentence directly states the structure and order of the essay. Basically, the thesis statement should be proven throughout the essay.
Elie Wiesel is well known for his memoir Night that later spawned the trilogy of which Day is the final book. Wiesel has written more than fifty books and has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Soon after earning the Nobel Prize, Wiesel and his wife Marion founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
Dawn is a novel by Elie Wiesel, published in 1961. It is the second in a trilogy — Night, Dawn, and Day — describing Wiesel's experiences and thoughts during and after the Holocaust. [1] Unlike Night, Dawn is a work of fiction. [2] It tells the story of Elisha, a Holocaust survivor.
Night: Stella Rodway, Hill and Wang, 1960 Memoir Entre deux soleils (Between Two Suns) Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1970 ISBN 2-02-001140-9: One Generation After: Lily Edelman with Elie Wiesel, New York: Random House, 1970 ISBN 0-394-43915-5: Essays, Religion, Interviews A Jew Today: Random House, 1978 ISBN 0-394-42054-3: Essays, Religion
that “they” should manage our rights, the way we hire a professional to do our taxes; “they” should run the government, create policy, worry about whether democracy is up and running.
Al-Lail ("Night" or "The Night"), the ninety-second sura of the Qur'an; Night, a 1956 (Yiddish), 1960 (English) book by Elie Wiesel; Night (O'Brien novel), a 1972 novel by Edna O'Brien; Night, a 1969 short play by Harold Pinter "Night" (poem), a poem by Robert Blake poem from the 1789 collection Songs of Innocence