Eliezer Wiesel’s novel Night is a story of conflict. The events that a young boy goes through in World War II (WWII) are the subject of the entire book and, there is a conflict of some sort on every page that is turned. Not only are the disputes in the book physical, but many characters struggle mentally and religiously. The sources of these conflicts are not few and far between. It is very easy to identify the internal and external forces that cause such friction and tension in the work. The most obvious source of problems in Night is the war itself. The Nazis were corrupted, hateful, and dangerous people with a vendetta against innocent souls. The Jews were murdered, beaten, and broken. This type of conflict was purely physical and the Jews were on the …show more content…
By the time the war was over, millions of people were dead at the hands of the Nazis. It was a conflict of man versus man and no one truly won. Another significant source of struggle was God. The Jews were highly religious people who were stripped of their identity. They saw themselves as the chosen people of God; therefore, they held their religion close to their hearts. Not only were they no longer people, but also their God seemed to go missing when they needed him the most. They saw what was happening around them and to them and were now fighting a war against themselves. Where was God? How could he let this happen? Most Jews lost their way and, ended up giving up on God. This internal conflict broke some Jews more than the Nazis ever could. Yet another source of conflict in Night was man himself. People struggled against what was right and wrong. In the concentration camps,