Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Towards the end of Elie Wiesel’s memoir he begins to describe how weak he has become and how weaker is going to be since he has decided to give his rations of bread and soup to not only his father but to the other people around the camp as well. “I knew that I would be strong enough to fight off dozens of violent men!” (Night, 101). Throughout the book Elie tends to describe the appearance of others rather than his own. He gives detailed descriptions of the corpses, he describes the appearance of people who are close to death, and he describes many things going on throughout the camp, along with his father. The appearance of the people that Elie has provided us with gives us an idea or thought as to how he may look like. “I tried to get rid of my invisible assassin…was I struggling with a dead man?” (Night, 94). During this section of the book Elie was somewhere around the ages of 17 or 18. If Elie was not in a concentration camp he would have been a well-nourished and growing teen. Due to the circumstances he had been going through, he must have been extremely weak especially if he could not lift a dead corpses from on top of him. …show more content…

During this time it seemed that Elie found it difficult to even speak or have any form of communication with his father to see if he was doing well. “Don’t let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer… Get up? How could I?”(Night, 88). During this moment in time Elie and his father approached a shed, Elie was too weak and was beginning to feel tired to even manage to stay awake and he was slowly falling into a deep sleep. This quote gives us an idea or image inside of our heads and shows us how weak and skinny Elie must have