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"night" No Man Is an Island Unto Himself
Summary: Elie Wiesel's powerful story Night tells of pain and suffering experienced by a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The story befits John Donne's famous quote, "No man is an island . . . Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee," in that the sharing of a common culture and the subsequent feeling of belonging helped the prisoners to survive the horror of the concentration camps.
Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical novel about a young boy's experience during
the Holocaust. The following quote: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of
the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well
as if a promontory were... Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and
therefore never seek to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." by John Donne applies to
the book. This sense that everyone is a part of the whole is reflected in Night, in the following
ways: the sense of belonging together, their common religious beliefs, and unity among the Jewish
people. All of these show how no man is in fact an island, and that each person, no matter who
he/she is...
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