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Analysis Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Granted, our task is to inform. But information must be transformed into knowledge, knowledge into sensitivity and sensitivity into commitment”. This quote was written and told by Elie Wiesel to show the transformation of which Elie Wiesel went through as being a jew and during the holocaust. The quote states that “information must be transformed into knowledge knowledge into sensitivity and sensitivity into commitment all the words have something in common. Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the holocaust which back then was the worst experience in life. Elie Wiesel explain the book “Night about the horrified nights in the camps of the holocaust.

Elie revealed how everyone else in the camp have given up and how they all lost

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