Night And Fear By Elie Wiesel

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In Elie Wiesel’s Night and the poem “Fear” by Eva Pickova, the narrator and the speaker portray the message of terror caused by one group to another. The narrator in Night lives a nightmare in the concentration camps he and his family were in. In “Fear” the speaker conveys the true horror of the ghettos and what they can do to families. In Both cases, the Nazis are the oppressors and are the root of the conflict. In “Fear” the speaker describes the terror that inhabits the ghetto that she and her family have been forced into. She describes them as a new kind of fear. She writes, “Today the ghetto knows a different fear / Close in its grip, Death wields an icy scythe.” (Pickova, lines 1-2). This fear quickly closes its grip on her and anyone