Tragic Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

“I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction” Elie Wiesel. Millions of innocent people were taken captive by the Germans during World War two. They suffered terrible cruelties at the hands of German soldiers and many of the survivors have gone on to tell of the atrocities they faced. Elie Wiesel, one of the many survivors of the holocaust, retells his story in his novel, Night. In his novel, Wiesel reveals how atrocities and cruel treatment can turn innocent people into brutes. This tragic theme is revealed through the book when German soldiers mass murder their victims, prisoners beat each other, and families turn against one another.

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In the beginning of Wiesel’s novel, the reader is introduced to a boy named Moishee who is targeted by the Germans before the Jews know the danger they are in. Moishee saw terrible things while in captivity, but he finds a way to escape the Germans and returns to his home town to warn the Jews of the atrocities he witnessed while in German captivity. “Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one to offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns” (6). The Germans had once lived in harmony with the Jews, but suddenly they turned on them, morphing into brutal monsters. The Germans heartlessly tore Jewish families