Bradley Duncan
Night Cue Card
Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel that was born in Romania into a Jewish family that migrated to America.
Elie Wiesel’s book night was published in Buenos Aires originally in Yiddish in 1955, and later published into English in 1960. Night begins in Sighet. Transylvania which is now part of modern day Romania, but was part of Hungary during the author's childhood. The book takes place in the author’s childhood during World War 2, and being sent to concentration camps. He went to the camps of Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald.
The story begins as Elie’s in his hometown Sighet in Transylvania during World War 2. As the war edges towards the end Hungary is occupied by the Germans in spring of 1944.
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The author also uses rhetorical devices such as allusion seeing in his thought and dreams death, and amplification of his surrounds of murder. The author argues throughout the story if he believes their is a god after the horrors he has been through.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” - Elie Wiesel This quote shows the horrors he experienced just day one at the concentration camp. His whole life was turned around in one swift spring season being deported to hell in his teenage years.
I believe the universal theme of Night could be times do get better because during the story loses hope, and believes he will die, but it ends up being better. He makes it out alive to tell his story to millions of readers around the world but never gets to see his family again. Life gets better for him but he will never recover from the hell he went through in critical years of his