There is a lot to be learned from silence. Psychologists and religious leaders, in fact, often encourage their patients and congregation members to seek out the answers to their questions and problems through meditation and quieting the brain. However, silence can also be ominous. Silence can create fear in people. It is a lack of expression, emotion, and sometimes concern. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel uses silence as a metaphor for the lack of aid, comfort, and humanity that the Jews experienced during World War II. All the poeple that were put in the concentration camps were terrified, worried, lonely, sad, and didn’t know how to reacte other than just be silent and talk to who they knew and worry about themselves and their families. Some of these people had the idea of how the concentration camps worked but there were others who didn’t know anything about it. They were moved to different camps, some of them were better than others and some were horrid. When the new people showed up to the better camps they were like “why couldn’t we live like this”. People were separated from their families when they got to the camps and they had to change clothes. …show more content…
There was a time in the book when Weisel was hurt and he didn’t want to go to the “hospital” part of the camp because he thought they would do something bad to him or hurt him more. Peers and his dad told him to get it checked because it was turning nasty and then they could probably amputate his leg if it got worse. Weasel then decided to get it checked and they treated him well but he was only allowed to be there for a certain amount of time, and the time being there they feed them more then when they are out. He saved food for his dad, he remained silent so no one could say anything or do anything to him. He remained silent for the health of him and his