Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout times of conflict, people overlook their self-identity and lose all forms of humanity, often shown through the deprivation of empathy, mercy, and kindness. Namely, these losses frequently occur through both the oppressor and the oppressed. Night, by Elie Wiesel, takes place in the 1940s during the Second World War in Nazi Germany. In the novel, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the great deal of agony he went through during the Holocaust, and his survivor’s guilt, as an ironic and unfortunate Holocaust survivor. Furthermore, Wiesel was robbed of his family and all of his loved ones as he is taken from one concentration camp to the next. In Night, the persecutors are the Nazis and the violent leaders, and the burdened are the Jews. Wiesel