In the novel Night Wiesel is informing the reader about the traumatizing experience that he went through in the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a 15- year-old Jewish boy who was sent to the concentration camp Birkenau in Auschwitz. When Wiesel arrived at camp, his first night turned into something that he will never forget. Wiesel saw the small faces of the children whose bodies were transformed into smoke under a silent sky. “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams into ashes.” This quote is explaining when he arrived at camp he felt God leave his soul as he saw things that he couldn’t believe. The first barrack that Wiesel was assigned to was very long, so many crazed men were shouting brutally. …show more content…
An SS officer wandered through the room looking for the strongest men, Wiesel had found a note that the SS officer slipped to him which told them that Wiesel and the other men that were chosen were because of his strength, which he had been forced to place his own father’s body into the furnace. When Wiesel arrived at the barber they shaved every inch of their hair off until there was nothing left. Then, someone came over to Wiesel and threw his hands around him and told him how they were still alive and not to waste tears. “Not cry? We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside…Do you understand? Inside. How could I not cry?” This quote shows how Weisel has no fear or emotion left and that he is exhausted. Around 5 o’clock the next morning Wiesel and his crew were expelled from the barrack, the Kapos kept beating them again and again, but he no longer felt the pain going through his body. Wiesel had run to a new barrack where they were forced to take a hot shower and as they ran there were clothes that were put on. At the end, Wiesel had realized that he changed because of the scariest events that happened in just a few