Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Many immediately think to blame the Nazis, and only the Nazis for the Holocaust. This is not the case however, as many groups all share a portion of the blame. In Elie Wiesel's book, Night, it is evident that blame be passed to Elie’s God, the Jewish people themselves, and the non Jewish Europeans.

Elie writes how his non Jewish neighbors watched, the Hungarian police force the Jews to march. When this was happening, the Jews were insulted, and beaten; it was clear the police had dark intentions. The neighbors did nothing even though they had heard of what the Nazies had done to the alien Jews in 1941. The non Jewish population let the Jews be taken away; for this, they bear a degree of responsibility for the Holocaust.

Elie is thinking