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Question: How do chapters 1-2 of Night and 'No Man is an Island illustrate that the individual is as
important as the collective (group)? Cite and explain at least one piece of evidence from both texts.
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Answer with Explanation:

"Night" is a story written by Elie Wiesel. It talks about the situation the narrator experienced at the Nazi concentration camp.

One illustration which occurred in Chapter 1-2 is the situation of "Moishe the Beadle." He was the man who helped the narrator in studying "Kabbalah." He was very passionate in teaching him every evening at the synagogue, until one day.

There was an order to expel the foreign Jews from Sighet. It included Moishe. Many of them were murdered and shot at the Galician forest, but Moishe was lucky enough to escape. When he came back, he was no longer the same.

As mentioned in the book, there was no more joy in his eyes and he was no longer singing. Such situation shows how a person can change or become hopeless when someone gets hurt in the community. In Moishe's case, it was all of his community of foreign Jews who were executed.

In relation to "No Man is an Island," such situation is an evidence of the text saying that "...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." This shows that every person in the community is important. The loss of Moishe's community changed him and made him scared and less happy. This depicts that no man can stand alone and therefore, needs to survive in a community.

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