The Meaning Behind The Title Night By Elie Wiesel

The Meaning behind, the tittle Night

Elie Wiesel is the author of the memoir, Night, which is written about his experience as a religious Jew during the holocaust. In the story he goes into detail explaining how he and his family were tormented, how they were treated and how he tried to survive day by day while in the concentration camps. In the memoir, Wiesel struggled with many things such as his belief for his religion and what the Nazis were doing to them; he couldn’t quite understand it all. When you think of the tittle Night, one begins to think how this compares to the story, but there is a metaphoric connection of the title to the memoir. The fact that Wiesel name his story night was not a coincidence because night alone can stand

Each night, while Elie Wiesel was in the concentration camps, brought death. Each night he saw and witness people around him dying. The Nazi had mad it there business to break everyone down and if you was not strong enough to fight for your life at night you will be dead by the morning. The Nazi made them work very hard during laborious work. They took their time dehumanizing the Jews. They strip them of their identity by making them shave their heads, remove tattoos and strip them of all the belongings that they had with them that made them. They then will brand them with a number and force them to wear the clothes they wanted to wear making them all one and losing their self of identity

In the memoir, he struggles with his understand of god. Eli is born in a family whom are of orthodox Jewish religions. He explains that at a young age he spent his time prating Jewish text and the oral laws even though it was against his father’s wishes. The crudity and the gruesomeness of the concentrations camps is what cause Wiesel to feel the way he feels about his religion. That is what causes him to reflecting and question is there really a god. Eli couldn’t understand how, in the mist of this all that the god he served was not there in the time of need to protect and serve himself and the others who worship him too. He couldn’t understand how the god he serves was allowing all of these acts of crudity to happen to him and his family over and over. Wiesel write, “I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice." (Wiesel, 42). By this, he meant he doesn’t stop believing in god but he questioned his reasoning and purpose. Wiesel couldn’t comprehend how a god, his god, who was so merciful, could be blind to the human suffering that was going on. Wiesel wasn’t the only one suffering from the act of believing in his religion, so were the rest of the Jews. It was very hard for anyone in the concentrations camps to have any faith or hope