Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night, Elie Wiesel’s narrative, is about a young boy and his struggles as he tries to survive the Holocaust. This novel takes place during the mid 1940s, in the historical event of the Holocaust; the setting of the story includes Elie’s house and several Jewish concentration camps. Throughout the story, Elie, being Jewish, becomes a prisoner of the concentration camps, and he faces the struggle of survival as other Jewish prisoners, most importantly, Elie’s father. Elie and his father, along with millions of other Jews at concentration camps were giving small rations of food, worked hard labor a majority of the time, and lived in poor conditions. As the reader evaluates the story, they realize that Wiesel is illustrating that all people are

As hope played a critical part in the lives of the jews, a number of the prisoners died, yet they were suffering anymore. As the story advanced and the Jews finally realized that the living hell that the other Jews were talking about were coming true, the new prisoners could only hold on to the little hope they had left. An example of the prisoners’ hope slowly disintegrating would be, “Here or elsewhere- what difference did it make? To die today or tomorrow, or later? The night was long and never ending” (103). In this quote, Wiesel is describing Elie’s thoughts as he is ready to die. Elie has gone through so much, and he doesn’t think he could go on anymore. This passage is a vital part of the story because it is revealing Ellie's thoughts as he thinks that it might be the end. The prisoners being hopeless when they needed it led to many of them savoring the time they had left with their families. “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire that devoured us”(30). In this quote, Wiesel is expressing the anxiety this going around throughout the town. The citizens of the town are finally experiencing and are about to find out that the people they thought were crazy, such as Moche, were actually right. In the narrative, night is word that was repeated a number of times. It illustrated the darkness that was created throughout the story, which is associated with the loss of