Facing difficulties in literature gives connection and better understanding to readers. In writing, difficulties also provide more details to the literature. This novel describes especially hard times because was written during the time period of the Holocaust. In the drama Night by Elie Wiesel, difficulties are shown through events that take place during the Holocaust and resemble frightening situations.
In Night, Elie Wiesel was faced with the difficulty of taking a cattle train, with many others, to a concentration camp called Auschwitz. Eliezer's difficulty in expressed in the following excerpt, "It was over but I did not realize it, for I had fainted. I felt myself come round as a bucket of cold water was thrown over me. I was still lying on the box. I could just vaguely make out the wet ground surrounding me. Then I heard someone cry out it must have been the Kappa."The excerpt is illustrating the horror Eliezer, the main character, experienced during the train ride to
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This is shown through the following excerpt,"It was over but I did not realize it, for I had fainted. I felt myself come round as a bucket of cold water was thrown over me. I was still lying on the box. I could just vaguely make out the wet ground surrounding me. Then I heard someone cry out it must have been the Kappa."This quotation is showing the painful experience Eliezer was put through. Elie was beaten twenty five times with a whip for his curiosity of the Kappa. The beating was difficult for Elie because he was experiencing excruciating pain, to the point where he fell unconscious. Elie was ordered to get up and face the Kappa but he could not. The kappa was shouting at him"Get up, Get up" Eliezer could not talk and barely could stand. This event caused problems and difficulties in Elizer, due to the pain and emotional scarring of him being repeatedly