Why Is Elie Wiesel's Definition Of Truth Is Not True

Elie Wiesel claims Night, as well as his other truthful stories to be accurate, but his definition of truth is not what one would concur. Wiesel categorizes Night as a memoir, however, his argument is completely inaccurate. Wiesel’s conversation with the Rebbe completely contradicts what a memoir is. The fact that Wiesel even admits that he has completely made some of his stories up, yet still claims them to be true stories, is completely wrong.
The Rebbe sees through Wiesel, claiming that he writes lies. Wiesel justifies himself and says: “Some events do take place but are not true; others are – although they never occurred”. What Wiesel is saying to the Rebbe is that some things that are made up could be truer than things that definitely did not happen, and that the made up event could have happened to somebody else out there in the world. This means that the memoir has a more imaginative aspect than what it truly is. For example, a writer saying that the Nazis killed people by shooting them through the chest without actually being there to witness it is more true than saying that the Nazis killed people by burying them alive. The

A memoir is a type of nonfiction in which a writer recalls a significant event from his or her own life. If a writer writes about an event that possibly did take place, but is not there to witness it, it can hardly be called a memoir, as the event did not take place in the writer’s own life. However, I personally understand why Wiesel might do this. Sometimes, when I write a memoir exactly how it played out, the story tends to be too unappealing. I would write more about how other people might have played it out and change a few things in order to make the story more interesting. This method, however, does not make the story more true than it actually is, as it is just mainly used to either make the story more interesting, or to cover up something bad that the writer might have