People always say that bad things happen at night. I believe Elie Wiesel called his Holocaust memoir, Night because Wiesel uses foreshadowing and symbolization of bad things with the name Night. Throughout the book, we see how Wiesel mentions the physical and symbolic darkness of night, right before something terrible happens. For example, in chapter 7 pgs 98-103, when Night symbolization as it relates to the author’s experiences. This happens when the car stops in a field and SS soldiers shout at the people in the cars to throw out their dead.
Which could also mean, the dark days are representing to old country and the light must
Of course, night is used literally in the book to mean a time of day. It is also used as a motif in the book to symbolize death, the Jews gradual loss of faith, and suffering. As an image, it comes up repeatedly. Many things happen at night in the book. The Jews of Sighet are loaded into the cattle carts; Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz; they are forced to march through the night; they're stacked on top of each other and suffocate each other, and Eliezer’s father dies during the night.
Elie Wiesel chose the title for his book, Night, because of many different reasons. I believe that the most important reason is because of fear. For many people, the nighttime is scary. There is darkness, there is the unknown, and there is the possibility of anything. “It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side” (Wiesel 84).
In chapter six of Night, in the camp, “Night was falling rapidly. And more and more prisoners kept coming.” That means more prisoners were coming to the camp; furthermore, more and more people were stepping into the unknown, which connects to night falling quickly. In Night, the darkness and the inability to see represents unknown; however, nightfall also represents pain and feeling
First, Elie uses the word “night” to describe when they are in their hardest times and when they lose a portion of their faith and hopes. “In a few moments, we stood in ranks. Block by block. Night had fallen.
The word "night" employs symbolism by their misfortune of belief and the night then turns to what we know today as the Holocaust. Prior to the Jews acknowledgement of the departure from Sighet, Wiesel expresses how the night has fallen and this is also mentioned again before this event took place. With that being said, this mentions beyond than just the time of day. This reference to the night fall helps introduce the Jews into their world turning upside down. This was only the beginning of the dullest, darkest era of their lives.
In the novel Night, the word night ironically is a motif, appearing again and again throughout the novel. One of its many appearances occurs near the beginning of the novel when Elie and his family are going to move into a smaller ghetto. “It was to be the last night spent in our house.” It next appears on the train when they hear that Aushwitz will be their last destination and that conditions were good. “Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights’ terror.”
The word night can represent sleep and peacefulness, but it can also bring darkness and the unknown. The author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel, wrote about his traumatic experience as a teenage boy during the Holocaust. Wiesel chose the title Night because of the fear felt by the Jews which the word night symbolizes. Night symbolizes the fear because of the multiple times the Jews transfered location during night, the fear the prisoners experienced daily of what may happen to them and their family after hearing stories from fellow Jews, and the horrific killings and executions that happened throughout the memoir including the hanging of the young Pipel. The book focuses on the experiences Wiesel goes through during the Holocaust.
Night gives a gloomy and desolated feeling, a feeling horrifically fitting to the scenario they were in. A clear and vivid example of this is when the farmers threw food into the wagons to see a fight and watch humans murder each other over crust from bread. One boy kills his own father just to get a small piece of bread!
It is evident that throughout the novel, night symbolizes a sense of darkness and despair. Through self-deception, Eliezer counteracts the nighttime with the thought that daylight will come each day. To Eliezer, the morning symbolizes a new start and another day of hope of outlasting the horrors of the Holocaust: “The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person” (37).
This was the last time Wiesel saw his mother and little sister forever (Page 22). Night is used throughout Wiesel’s memoir to symbolize death and the darkness of humanity. By itself it comes up various amount of times. Eliezer says, “The days were like nights, and the nights left the dregs of their darkness in our soles” (page 73). Thus night
“Night” is a poem by Hilda Doolittle better known as H.D. Born in Pennsylvania on September 10, 1998. The work of H.D was “characterized by the intense strength of her image economy of language and use of classical mythology”. Mythology is the myths of a group of people depending on each culture. While classical is a long established event or idea or also traditional, HD used traditional myths to create each poem. She was also the leader of the imagist movement which was very important at that time.
Another time where night represents a dark time is when Eliezer and his father arrive at Auschwitz and wait in line all night long with the smell of death in their noses as they watched all those individuals die. Finally, “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”- Bram
(p. 65) Night is used as metaphor for darkness and death in the book “Night”. The first quote tells us that the experience was so bad in the camp that he can’t forget it. Because he can’t forget what has happened he has become a shadow for his life that makes him remember the terrible experience, which sealed his life. His life is sealed, because of the bad experiences that he had gone through.
