In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, he talks about his life alongside his father during the holocaust. As he and his father are separated from the rest of their family and forced to jump from camp to camp we see the harsh treatment put on to them from the SS soldiers in charge of the camp(s). The book surrounds father and son relationships greatly as well as highlighting the danger of indifference and of course the holocaust. We can see that through this novel the purpose is to bring awareness to the horrors of the holocaust and how in the end the indifference of the SS soldiers as well as that of the Jews in the camps was more dangerous than Hitler himself.
Very early on in the camps the SS soldiers had begun to force the Jews to take the side of indifference towards one another. As soon as Elie and his father arrive to their first camp Elie chooses to stay silent instead of speak up—showing indifference towards his own father clearly for the first
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He goes though the book telling the reader how he had began to lose not only his faith but himself as well. His faith, which at the beginning of the book was something he valued greatly and wanted to get deeper into. But sadly, as the book goes on he begin to resent hid god due to prayers not being answered right away and the circumstances of the holocaust were that of which he felt a god such as the one he had grown up serving should not subject his people to. We also see Wiesel lose himself though out this experience. On the closing paragraph of his memoir Wiesel states, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.” (115) here, it’s almost like you can feel all the lost he has felt because even though he is looking the mirror at himself, he can barley recognize it’s him that he sees. This