How Does Elie Wiesel Use Motifs In Night

What is the Holocaust, exactly? Some may say it's one of the most horrific acts in human history or even the greatest genocide in history, killing about 6 million Jewish people and leaving a deep scar in human history. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, a small village in northern Transylvania, Romania, an area that was part of Hungary from 1941 to 1945. Wiesel was the only son of four children of Shlomo, a grocer, and his wife, Sarah (Feig) Wiesel. He was devoted to the study of the Torah, the Talmud and the mystical teachings of Hasidism and the Cabala. In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night he uses motifs of fire and night to convey an underlying message about fear, humanity, and faith. Eli Wiesel uses the motif of a fire and night in his memoir

This connotative message about fear in the way that shows how the Jewish people rather spend their time in the night rather than the day because of the peace they get in the night rather than in the day where they are mistreated. Also, the mistreatment led them to portray night as a good thing as a measure of faith and hope. Another example of this motif is in chapter 1 page 8 where it shows fire, and states’’ London radio, which we listened to every evening, announced encouraging news : the daily bombing of Germany and Stalingrad’’. Elie Wiesel: This motif symbolizes humanity because night and humanity can both be dark and evil in a way just like how night is scary because of the unknown darkness, it's also scary because humanity doesn’t know what danger they can inflict on each other. This connects to the theme of humanity by showing in the text that the only joy that comes with war is death and destruction and that the hope of news that tells the Jew’s the enemy is suffering shows how humanity can be cruel and evil. Eli Wiesel uses the motif of a fire and night in his memoir titled Night to convey an underlying message about