Internal Struggles In Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust was the realization of Adolf Hitler’s grand vision to exterminate the Jews. Elie Wiesel’s Night is a memoir written from his perspective as a young boy caught in the middle of the slaughter of the Jewish people. Elie and his family were deported to the Nazi concentration camp without a clue of the immense suffering that awaited them. Furthermore, the text follows the writer’s internal struggle inside Auschwitz as he faces the horrors that had stolen his childhood innocence and his faith in humanity. The author was petrified by the series of events that unfolded in front of him; thus, he faced several internal struggles. When Elie first arrived at Auschwitz, he was in denial of the hellish nightmare that he was in. He was sickened