Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In this essay I am going to be writing and giving explanations about a few questions regarding the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The questions are as followed, what does the word Night symbolize for Wiesel? Why do I think he entitled his book “Night”? And how does he describe the night time, and how does it compare to “day”? It symbolizes Wiesel horrible experience at the concentration camps. It symbolizes many last nights, the last night all of his family ate together, the last night in sighet, the last night in Buna, the last night with his dying father and the last breath of all the innocent. Weisel says “I shall remember the smiles” of innocent children, men, woman and millions of people that died. I think he titled his book Night because