The memoir Night, was written by an empathetic, kind and faithful man named Eliezel Wiesel. We can identify him as a Romanian Jew who lived through the Holocaust and shares his experience to those who are willing to listen. The identity of the Jewish community was lost in the darkness, as discrimination and dehumanization became a threat. Eliezel and his family face ego deaths as the silence of God makes them question who they are as a whole. Wiesel exemplifies how extreme situations challenge one's identity and makes them lose sight of their humanity. A joker, a faithful boy, an angry boy, a creature of the night with a long nose, a survivor. As Elizer and the prisoners spend more time in Auschwitz, “beast of prey unleashed [with] animal hate …show more content…
Over time, their physical image becomes beaten and destroyed causing them to see themselves as corpses rather than humans. When the Jews were forced into a camp, Elizel “had no other name” as the Germans assigned them numbers instead. (Wiesel 42) By taking away their name, one can lose a piece of themselves. In addition to affecting the Jews mental state, they strayed away from their faith and lost sight of their values after witnessing the death of their friends, family, and culture. “Disintegrating the graves of the dead'' (Tadeusz Pankiewicz). Eliezer Wiesel’s memoir saved the Jews identity crisis, giving them Perrucci 2 a voice after WWI. The irony of public humiliation degraded the Jewish community. Wiesel chose to allocate his life to the dead and the young to carry on their legacy, touching the hearts of the survivors who were forgotten. Culture can be used to measure one’s worth, causing their values to change based on others' biases. All prayers were lost when the “terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent” after witnessing the slaughter of people who worshiped him daily (Wiesel 33). The