All My Sons Prediction: After the Ending

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After Chris's father is taken to jail, I still believe that Ann and Chris would have gotten married. Ann came off to me as a person who had made peace with the past and was ready for her future. Chris probably would still have had feelings of guilt because of what his father had done and because of what his father had done to Ann's father, but he really loved Ann, so he would have gotten married to her. I think Chris would have gotten rid of his father's company and house and moved to New York because he was already thinking of moving to New York before he learned of his father's behavior during the war and that catastrophe would have only made him more determined to follow through on that decision. Chris might have cut off communication between him and his father like Annie had done with hers. Chris and his father seemed really close, but I think their relationship suffered a huge break.

Night

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This photo is a good representation of night because the ones who didn't know anything about the concentration camps were living in the light and hadn't experieced what total darkness was: a world without hope, faith and the goodness of people. Everything bad that happens to Eli during the Holocaust happens during the Night. In the bible when God created the heavens, the earth was in darkness, which is a symbol of a world without God. Eli questions whether God even exists when he can let such awful things happen. Night is also a metamorphosis of how Eli's thoughts turn evil in the novel ( a darkness of the soul). The reality of night to Wiesel meant the silence of apathy, the wordlessness of the bystanders who knew the truth of Hitler's death camps, but who took no action, and made no objection to the Nazi's extermination plan.

Fire

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This symbol of fire is adequate for the novel Night because physically and mentally everything in the world went up into flames for the Jews and the other victims of the Holocaust. To the Jewish religion fire was associated with God and divine wrath, but they hadn't done anything wrong. The Nazis used fire to exterminate them and to get rid of the remains (evidence) against them. It upset Eli's concept of the universe and his faith in God.

The Importance of Father-Son Bonds

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This photo reminded me of Eli and his father because in their relationship Eli had a pretty high opinion of his dad. Throughout the novel that changes and he starts to look out for his father instead of the father looking out for Eli. Eventually Eli questions himself as to whether or not he would ever leave his father, he decides that he would never do that, even though he thinks of doing exactly that in the end of the novel. He loved his father, but in the end he knew that his father wouldn't make it and to survive he distanced himself emotionally and physically from his father.

Inhumanity Toward Other Humans

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This photo excellently describes Eli's disillusionment withe the world which resulted from his painful experience with Nazi persecution, but also from the cruelty he sees fellow prisoners inflict on each other. Eliezer also becomes aware of the cruelty of which he himself is capable. Everything he experiences in the war shows him how horribly people can treat one another—a revelation that troubles him deeply.
Elie first witnesses inhumanity toward other humans when the Germans start shipping his town of Sighet off to the camps. The Germans put the Jews in their synagogue and keep them in their until the train comes during that time the Jews had to desecrate their own synagogue because the Germans didn't let them out. It really hit Eli though what humans can do to each other when he witnessed babies burning. He found out what he capable of when he considered leaving his father and didn't stand up for his father when the Germans were beating him.

Silence

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I think this photo does an adequate job of explaining how that if you keep your silence when something is happening then it kills people.

Eli didn't know anything about the death camps in 1944 because people had kept silent. The Germans didn't talk about what they were doing to political prisoners, gays, and Jews and hardly anyone ever escaped the camps. The people surrounding the camps didn't say anything about the death camps because maybe they believed in the extermination of the Jews or maybe they didn't want to be killed themselves. Whatever the case maybe the silence resulted in six million deaths.

Eliezer’s Struggle to Maintain Faith in a Benevolent God

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Survivors of the Holocaust had to rebuild their lives and their very reasons for living; so much was shattered by the Holocaust. The Jewish faith was an intricate part of what they had lost during the Holocaust. This photo represents Eli's railing against a God which he starts to believe does not exist.
Throughout the novel Night Eli struggles with his relationship with God. He loves and adores God in the beginning and even cries when he is praying. As Night goes on however he starts to question and then starts to renounce God. Eli doesn't believe that God would do nothing to help him. And even now questions why he was saved out of all those people who were killed.