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The importance of his writing lies in his ability to speak for all ______ 4 _____ people and also for all of humanity.
He has said, "I have always felt that words mean responsibility. I try to use them not against the human condition but for all ______ 5 _____ ; never to create anger ..." .
Elie Wiesel's literature, most of which he wrote in French, is rooted in the ____ 6 ____ of the Holocaust and devoted to the examination of the most fundamental moral issues.
Wiesel's novel, La Nuit or Night is a tiny taughtly written classic. Its direct, relatively image-free, concise language, is rich with meaning.
He was born Eliezer Wiesel on 30 September 1928, in Sighet, Romania, a well-known center of Jewish culture, in the region of Transylvania. What for Wiesel was a traditional and idyllic boyhood in an orthodox Jewish family came to a ______ 7 ____ end with the arrival of the Nazi armies during the spring of 1944. All of Sighet's approximately fifteen thousand Jews were arrested and deported by train to Auschwitz, Poland. Elie was 16.
Wiesel was separated by the SS guards from his mother and three sisters, but he was able to remain with his father. In early 1945, he and his father were moved to Buchenwald. There his father ____ 8 ______ from starvation and dysentery.
His mother and youngest sister were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. His best-known work, Night was written as a memorial to his parents and his younger sister.
Night is the story of a teen-age boy
____ 9 ____ with guilt for having survived the death camps and ____ 10 ____by the realization that the God he had once worshipped so ______11_____allowed his people to be destroyed.
Night is mostly ____ 12 ____. It is a personal record of a child's life in a world of barbed wire, starvation, and gas chambers. It tells of his innermost ______13____ as he struggles to remain alive and as he clings to the last remaining _______14______ of his earlier life, his slowly dying father.
Written in the ____ 15 ____ most naked literary style, Night seethes with powerful scenes. "It is difficult to imagine a work that is more barren of literary adornment and at the same time so rich in intensity of human experience."
He is praised for his sensitive ____16____into human behavior, moral candor, and ability to objectively examine the Holocaust .. Despite the range of critical opinion, Wiesel's fiction is widely regarded as among the most passionate and powerful of all Holocaust writing.