Analysis Of Ellie Wiesel's Night

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Ellie Wiesel, an author who wrote about his near death experience of being sent to a Concentration Camp in his book , Night, named his book after the darkness found in those who captured and tortured over six million people. The Jewish, Gypsies, and the Homosexuals were the main groups who were captured by German Dictator Adolf Hitler and his soldiers. In 1944, Wiesel and his family was captured in their neighborhood and was sent to Auschwitz. Wiesel, who was fifteen at the time, lied about his age in order to stay alive and be sent to work instead with the able-bodied. The able-bodied were those who were not too young, anyone under eighteen, or too old, those who were over forty-five. The able-bodied were sent to work by working in the crematory

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