Elie Wiesel Work Cited For Night

The Yellow Star “Men to the left! Woman to the right!”(Wiesel 4). It was the spring of 1944, when the narrator of the memoir, Eliezer, experienced the most unforgettable event of his life; the Nazis had began to take control of Sighet, which is the hometown of Eliezer . As Eliezer expresses, “A prolonged whistle split the air. The wheels began to grind. We were on our way” (Wiesel 20). Not long after the war began to come to a close, the Jews were forced into cattle cars and had quickly realized that the terrible journey had began. Nearly starving and exhausted, the innocent Jews had reached Birkenau, which is the entry to Auschwitz concentration camp. The theme, tone and the writing style of Night by Elie Wiesel allow for this story to have

The theme that caught my eye is the constant change of their feelings towards faith. As stated by Eliezer, “for the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank him for?” (Wiesel 61). Entering Birkenau, the Jews begin to realize the actual terrors that are going to surround them. Eliezer has started to lose his loyalty to god as they enter. For the duration of the novel, Eliezer watches and experiences things that he cannot understand why God would ever let happen. Including German soldiers throwing innocent babies and children and it only got progressively worse as the camp went on. I believe without the loss of faith in Night that the story wouldn’t of had the religious effect on many

Wiesel’s tone of the story is filled with honesty,humorless, and mournful effects. Considering there wasn’t very much happiness at these concentration camps, Wiesel doesn’t attempt to take away from the effect of how horrible these camps were. Throughout the story, Eliezer tells his sorrows of his loss of family and loss of childhood. Additionally, Eliezer mourns “ I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted his absolute justice” ( Wiesel 42). As a matter of fact, much of this novel is written in a tone of honesty. Wiesel describes many of the situations that he regrets and feels terrible about. For example, Wiesel talks about how he didn’t defend his father when Nazi officers were beating his father's head in, that he went to bed knowing his father was being killed. In many situations in the story, we not only see the dark side of Wiesel, but also all the prisoners.With this in mind, Night would not have shown the changes nor feelings of the people during this time, and as a result wouldn’t of been as