In Night, Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel's shares his experience as a 15 year old boy. It is a memoir of extraordinary power: his humanity shines through every page as he stands a witness to the tragedy which befell the Jewish race at the hands of the Nazis. He calls himself a "messenger of the dead among the living" through his literary witness.
The concentration camp there shocks everyone with its cruelty and coldness to life. In Auschwitz where thousands of Jews were slaughtered daily is the witness to the emptiness that remains when man abandons all morality. It is a sight of apocalyptic proportions: grotesque block chimneys point their sad fingers to the heavens, while all that remains of the majority of the wooden barracks are their ruined foundations. The agony of the past is still snagged on the hurtful barbed wires, and a dreadful gloom stagnates over the camp, its spores infiltrating the hearts of people in the 21st century. The misery is irresistible. Wiesel writes with a power aimed at never letting people forget all that had happened in the Holocaust. Wiesel, with a strong background in Jewish studies, is seen
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As a young boy he was a very dedicated Jew and interested in Jewish mysticism. Elie had lived a sheltered life always praying and reflecting on his deep faith. He had lived only for God and had absolute belief in him. His religious faith develops, but is never extinguished during his time in concentration camps. Elie assumed that his faith would provide him with the answers. Elie’s life had changed. As he enters his adulthood he was no longer the ‘spoiled child’, no longer the naive boy but a young man exposed to the evils of war. He lost his virtuousness and learnt the ability to lie and commit acts of selfishness. Elie’s previous reality had weakened and disappeared. Elie’s anger is targeted at God’s absolute justice. Though Elie survived the suffering he had changed losing his profound