Out of the images Night, Fire and Death, the one that stands out the most has to be Night. Night, throughout the book, symbolizes Death and the loss of hope. Many of the most tragic events happens through the night. “On my father’s cot there lay another sick person. They must have taken him away before daybreak and taken him to the crematorium” (111). Elie’s father was taken away, at Night, to the crematorium. Sentenced to his Death. That is only one example of a disastrous event that happened at night. Another event was that they arrived at the their first camp by night. This event was the event that had led up to all of the hardships that were to come and his father’s death. “It must have been around midnight. We had arrived. In Birkenau”