What Is The Theme Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the story Night, a memoir about the narrator Elie Wiesel states, “ What are you, my God?” (Wiesel 66). The insufferable concentration camps made the narrator think twice about his beliefs. Two relatable themes that connects to inhumanity in the memoir is the way that silence altered Elie in the concentration camps and the words and sighting that scarred Elies forever. A theme in Night is the way that silence altered Elie in the concentration camps. For example, in one of Night’s most memorable passages, Elie mentions, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live” (Wiesel 34). It is the thought that God of not doing nothing that he finds most agitated, for a shorter example, an