Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying times in the world for Jews. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he retells his terrifying experience and existence within a concentration camp that was nothing more than the destruction of human life. As a thirteen year old boy, Elie Wiesel becomes got trapped in a world of hell. Auschwitz, a death camp for all Jews, was controlled by the German soldiers. Within Auschwitz all freedom and humanity is denied. Elie witnesses the ghastly view of many Jews. Where every little time they have is to survive and hope for a better tomorrow. At numerous moments in the novel, the Jews are victimized when forced to wear the yellow star, beaten harshly with an officer’s baton, and march in the cold winter in

In the novel, the star identifies as a social hierarchy created by the Germans. “Three days later, a new decree: every Jew had to wear the yellow star”(p.11, Wiesel). The yellow star that is labeled on every Jew shows that they are now one step closer to the concentration camp. The Jews lost their freedom and now they were controlled by the german. They had lost their names, the one thing that was important to them. The star was to shame the Jews and to imprint them out of segregation and injustice. This made them feel like the freedom they used to have is now departed from them. The Jews are just a number and nothing else, they are not important, they are just a slave to the Germans. The Jews are nothing more than just a number, a number that is going to become a corpse if they do not meet the criteria. The loss of one's identifies that symbolizes the yellow

When Jews march in the cold winter, it symbolizes the meaning of survival. The march represents the survival to the fittest. In Auschwitz showing signs of weakness can lead to a person’s death. “They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace”(p.85,Wiesel). With little to no food or clothings, the Jews have experience pain and suffering through marching in the freezing winter. The Jews has the need of getting faster every time they were starting to get behind. They are suffering in the cold and they barely have any clothing knowing that if they slow down they would be one step closer to death. The Jews could not even feel their own feet and bodies as they were beginning to numb, which shows the hardship that they have to go through. The march displays the symbolism for