Night By Elie Wiesel Sparknotes

Tabby Weis

Mr. Baldwin

English Language Arts 11

3/13/23

A Deeper Look Inside

Night by Elie Weisel is a novel that depicts the malicious happenings of the Holocaust from a first-person point of view. Weisel was a younger boy when him and his family were put into the concentration camps due to being Jewish. These camps are a well-known story in history because the acts that were committed were so inhumane that they have never been forgotten. Most of the time, when we hear about these camps, we hear of only the things that took place rather than the story being told by someone who had to experience the life of a prisoner. This is what makes Weisel's novel such a moving and impactful tome. He shares his experience

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, On the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and the conscience of mankind was it to leave behind a legacy of words or memories to help prevent history from repeating itself or was it simply to preserve a record of the ordeal I endured as an indolence at an age where one's knowledge of death and evil should be limited to what 1 discovers in literature (Night 1).” Elie Wiesel explains that he wrote his memoir Night, “Out of a duty to bear witness to his experiences in the Holocaust (https://www.facinghistory.org › resource-library › we-m...).” Elie wanted his readers to fully understand the crulity of the system and all the things that he and his family had to endure because of it. He talks of how he had to watch a child be hung at the gallows and this is when Elie realized how heartless these people really were. “ His tounge still red, his eyes not yet extinguished...For gods sake where is god (Night 65).” Elie uses this to express that everything he had witnessed was tragic and shows through his religion that it seemed so bad that not even God could help. He also makes a point with this scene in his novel because kids should not have to experience these things for they are pure souls. Night gives a chilling first-hand account of the horrors that the Jewish people faced at the hand of the Nazis. The personal thoughts of Wiesel

Most people would overlook the name but the word night is used heavily throughout the novel and is actually significant to the overall theme of this story. "Never shall I forget that night the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed (Night 3).” The word night is used over and over again in the text to signify the darkness of life, mind, and soul of those who lived in these camps. We also see Elie use the pharse night in many other occasions in the novel. Anytime him or somone in his family endures a negative event, he closed out the story by saying the word, “night.” This intells that the word night also signifies death or grim things. Night is used repeatedly like this to deepen the understanding of the tragedy he was living through. Night is “a period of darkness,” so he uses this word to signify the dark events that occur. This analogy helps the audience fathom what the Jews had to go through during the holocaust. Darkness of the soul and loss of