Echoes Of Absence In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Calvin Briggs Mr. Baker Period 6 01 May 2024 Echoes Of Absence The first-person memoir “Night” by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, unfurls the harrowing and tense situations and experiences in concentration camps and how they were a terrible place to be in. Wiesel illustrates how you should never forget the horrors of the genocide or it will happen again and you will be responsible. He also wishes that no one would ever have to undergo the pain that he had to go through and he would never put that pain and suffering on anyone. Firstly, when Elie Wiesel got to Auschwitz for the concentration camp he had to go to, the Hungarian police were waiting for them. “The Hungarian police were screaming.” (Weisel 19) They had zero patience and wouldn’t wait for anything and right away “they ordered us to run.” (Wiesel 19-20) Elie had to undergo lots of trials and tribulations like the death march which was a march in which he had to run 37 miles with minimal food later in the book he said it still haunts him to this day.

“My father was no longer conscience.” Wiesel will never forget the death of his father, which will make him always remember the horrors of the genocide or a mass amount of deaths in a specific aim of a group and of the Holocaust and what they did to him and how they impacted him. Elie was beaten, threatened to be shot, and almost had his life taken away numerous