Significance Of Breaking The Silence In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In my opinion, Wiesel creates this narrative to express the true horror of dehumanization and the silencing of voices that become the devastating legacy of the Holocaust. Due to the precise, vivid details used the reader can get a chilling feel for what young Elie went though. Moshi the Beadle and Juliek both have large parts in the book Night that help us have a better understanding of what went on during the Holocaust.
Thematically, both characters, Moshi the Beadle and Juliek are linked because they both take part in breaking the silence that represents such a large part of the book Night. Moshi and Juliek both represent breaking the silence in one way or another. Moshi escapes the Nazis, but is silenced by the people of Sighet. He is