The Barbed Wire In Elie Wiesel's Night

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In Night, the setting shows some symbolism and that helps the reader understand what is going to happen next in the story. Wiesel writes how about in the first few pages in the first chapter how they are not afraid of the barbed wire, but in reality the Jewish people should be scared, because barbed wire usually means danger, but instead they had no fear. By Describing how they fearless they were about the barbed wire, Wiesel wrote, “The barbed wire that encircles us like a wall did not fill us with fear”(11). The barbed wire symbolises how dangerous the barbed wire was that surrounded them and how the Jewish people should be concerned, but instead they had no fear, because they got to live with other Jewish people. Wiesel is explaining