Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, there was a very strong shift in the tone just within the first three chapters. “The shopkeepers were doing good business, the students lived among their books, and the children played in the streets”(Weisel 6). It is shown here that they were living ordinary, peaceful lives. “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction”(Weisel 14). This is where people began to no longer feel peaceful and began the long journey of fear and worry that would get worse throughout the book. The tone of the story shifted dramatically before they ever even left. “My soul had been invaded-and devoured- by a black flame”(Weisel 37). Here it shows that he had lost his ability