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Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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After going through the holocaust many victims said that they suffered from PTSD, depression, and sleep disorders other had health problems due to the poor conditions of the camp. Night by Elie Wiesel is about the authors expirence of the holocaust as a teenage boy and how it slowly starts to break his pyche. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the author uses conflict, characterization, symbolism to enhance the theme that putting people in tortuous situations causes mentality and body to break.

The conflict of misery Elie and others had to go through because of the Holocaust. Wiesel wrote “Our senses were numbed, and everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (Wiesel 36) It shows the identity loss of the prisoners as they give in to the conditions of the concentration camp. It highlights the dehumanizing nature of the Holocaust. The conflict of night is an external conflict (Man vs. Man) due to the problem being the holocaust and the Jewish people being tortured by the Nazis. Wiesel wrote “Never shall I forget that smoke. Never …show more content…

One quote states "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize me... You're killing your father... I have bread...for you too... for you too... " (Wiesel 101). a prisoner, killed his own father for a loaf of bread. It shows us the impact of the holocaust on people which causes them to break mentally and physically hurt the people they consider closest to them for desperation. Another quote states “I did not weep,...if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like Free at last!...”(Wiesel 112) When Eli’s father died he did not cry and deep down in his head he was a little glad that he died because he started to see him as a child and a burden, not a father. he would never have thought this way before the

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