Death In Night By Elie Wiesel

Death in Night In Night, Elie Wiesel writes a memoir about his experience and treatment as a Jew during the holocaust. He is taken from his home and placed in several concentration camps and has to witness the horrors of death for the first time. The Nazi party was indomitable in their pursuit of Jewish genocide, and he was trapped in their web of evil. In Night, Elie experiences physical, spiritual, and emotional death, creating a dreadful theme. Elie experiences physical death during his time in concentration camps. For example, Elie has his first encounter with physical death when he steps off the train at Birkenau where upon arrival, he smells “burning flesh” (Wiesel 28), alluding to the nightmares he is about to experience. He and his father are then led to a fiery pit where people are being thrown in, but before being mere steps away they are turned away. As he was standing in front of the pit, he describes being “face-to-face with the Angel of Death” (Wiesel 34). Elie personifies death as an angel in order to convey the gravity of the situation. His second experience with death occurs when a boy, no older than him, is led to the gallows after

He used to be a Godly man and wanted to pursue his faith as far as he could. He loved learning about his religion and would spend his free time researching new things about it, although, upon his arrival at Birkenau, he feels abandoned and alone, and even asks “What are you, my God?” (Wiesel 66). Elie also expounds upon his uncertainty in chapter 5, when he describes all of the pain he had gone through without God intervening to save him. He asks “Why would I bless him?” (Wiesel 67) while other Jews around him worshiped despite their circumstances. At one point, his feeling of abandonment turns into anger. He makes a witty remark and says “Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?” (Wiesel 67) as if to talk back to