The Holocaust. The devastation, deportation, extermination, and starvation of millions of human beings, targeted for their creed, their heritage, and their complexion. No words can capture the magnitude of this misery, but one can only try. In his memoir, “Night”, Elie Wiesel attempts to comprehend the mass suffering and distress caused by this event. His chosen title reflects his reaction to his experience, Night, meaning absolute darkness for a period of time. Like that of “The Diary of Anne Frank”, the writing was produced to develop a conscious for the future generations of the world, we read it to see through the eyes of those who were powerless to halt distrasious change. We must read stories like “Night” to gain a new perspective on …show more content…
To appreciate and comprehend the human beings that surround us will ensure a brighter future for us as a whole. It is also important as a person to stray from the direction of hatred and silence, in a difficult situation. As Elie Wiesel put it “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” My earlier studies of the Holocaust did not contain the voice of a human, facts were listed, sifted through, and analyzed. And then, we met Anne Frank, a young girl living in the middle of a war torn era. We read of her hopes and dreams, on faded paper from well worn magazines and books. And we began to her their stories, how she was cut off from the outside world, her heart constantly full of hope and wonder. Her narrative came to an end when her family’s hiding place was discovered and they were dragged away, destined for the horror camps of Poland and Germany. Elie gave us a larger lens to look through, his memoir, like that of Anne Frank’s spoke of life before they were displaced, but his tale ends with his survival. Which in his own words he describes as abnormal, because so many others would never experience what he did after he was liberated. However, in the end new evidence came to the surface, finally explaining the central message; retain hope, refuse to hate. In reading his book, and books similar to his we may never reach a conclusion to the questions