Is There A Good Title For The Book Night

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a very dark and heavy book. The book is called night because the night is a dark, heavy, uncontrollable thing just like Elie’s life going through all the camps he did. The life in the first ghetto was good. They were allowed to practice their own religion and had a synagogue.

Many countries were involved in the WWII and many people were killed. Elie Wiesel was a jewish survivor who went to a concentration camp and survived. He wrote many books about the holocaust and how he survived. The losses experienced by Elie Wiesel and the Jews of Sighet, led to the novel being title Night. This experience is shown by the following themes; Night as a symbol, loss of faith, moral death, and the relationship between Elie and his father.

Night, the very title suggests a dark and horrifying story. It truly deserves that title, because of the dark story of Elie Wiesel’s life. He is relocated to a concentration camp from a very young age. He recounts his life before, the struggles he faced within the camp, his loss of faith, and his rescue by the American forces. Night deserves it’s title because of the darkness of Elie’s life, the darkness brought upon others, and as the Holocaust was one if not the darkest time in human history.

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.”

Elie Wiesel has a somber mood in the text ‘Night’. He does this by using imagery and symbolism, Wiesel does this so curiously, as not to plunge into a sad mood, but slowly eases the reader into the despair. The author describes a boy as “angel faced” that slowly moves towards a tragic ending. The angel is a power symbol throughout all cultures, and using that symbol to be placed onto a boy, and expressed through imagery creates a sense of dread and despair. Eliezer depicts a young boy to a “sad faced angel”, in the sense that the boy seems holy, and innocent, yet being in a labor camp, reinforces our idea that the Nazis have no respect for anything good or sacred in the world.

The theme of man’s inhumanity to man is conveyed in Night through the Nazi’s horrendous treatment towards the Jews. The greatest and most terrifying enemy in the novel was not the crematories, weapons, or the concentration camps, but the people behind them all. It is painful to believe that Hitler and his followers could have so much hatred for an innocent group of people. Not only were the Jews normal residents, they were fellow neighbors and figures in society. The Holocaust is an excellent example of the epic battle of man versus man, where the Jews are forced to face the Nazis and the other Jews fighting for survival.

Night/Theme Elie Wiesels memoir is called Night because night is associated with fear, loneliness, and darkness. Elie felt all of these thing through the holocaust. Elie compared himself to the religious story of Job, Elie feels like God let atrocities and persecution happen to good men who did nothing wrong. They did not deserve any part of what was happening to them. In this quote Elie is saying I did not deserve this horrible matter to happen to me, I practiced my religion and had lots of faith and you still let this horrible stuff happen to me.

This intells that the word night also signifies death or grim things. Night is used repeatedly like this to deepen the understanding of the tragedy he was living through. Night is “a period of darkness,” so he uses this word to signify the dark events that occur. This analogy helps the audience fathom what the Jews had to go through during the holocaust. Darkness of the soul and loss of

There is also representation of suffering in Night by the author describing the pain that they had to go through and experience during the holocaust. They have experienced many horrible things that don't just affect physical suffering but mental suffering as well. Mental suffering will have to involve the alteration of their minds, which we see when “ Right next to us the high chimney of crematory oven rose up. It no longer made any impression on us” (pg 99).  

In “Night,” Wiesel utilizes the title to symbolize death, loss of faith, and darkness throughout the story. During the Holocaust, death was extremely common among the laborers. The smokestacks are used to smoke the laborers and burn them to death. The objective of the laborers is to survive until they reach the end of the journey. While marching, Wiesel’s friend Zalman is becoming extremely ill and is in the process of dying.

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night expresses his experiences and struggles during the Holocaust. Night reveals a story of horror, death, and fear whilst exhibiting a sense of hope and perseverance. In the story, Elie is taken from his home, separated from his family, and brought to a concentration camp where he was would live through things no person should have to go through. Night takes place during 1941-1945 during the height of the Holocaust. Throughout the story, the Jews are slowly turned into brutes through a process called dehumanization.

Night was written to demonstrate many aspects Elie Wiesel experienced in the concentration camps. The elements of Night and the experiences have a lot of things in common with Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel named his book Night because the sky was all cloudy from all the ash which made it seem like it was night eternally, Night was a sign of hope that they'll live another night, and that the night was too long. The book Night told all the hardships of being in the concentration camps and all the punishments that all the Jews had to go through.

As Elie became older and went through going to the camps, he realized that writing the book represents the horrors of what he went through to get to the point of liberation. In Night, Elie says “NEVER SHALL I FORGET that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed” (Wiesel, 34). .This connects back to the horrors he experienced because in this quote, Elie is saying that he will never forget how awful it was to experience that for the first time.

This quote is the final sentence of the book. Elie was liberated from Auschwitz, but had become ill so he was in a hospital room. He looked at himself for the first time since he was in the camp. Throughout his life in the concentration camp he became frail, and had lost a significant amount of weight. He had narrowly escaped death countless times, one being when he wasn’t chosen during selection, and another being the trip he had to endure during liberation.

And the night seemed endless.” In the quote he talks about the correlation between their loss of strength and the endless night (hopelessness) that seemed to be going on while in camps. Finally, he references the holocaust as ‘The Kingdom of Night’, which has many implications to it. The quote this is from is when he is talking about himself in the third person as he discovers the horrors of Nazi Germany, which he demonstrates in the words “A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night.”. That shows him as a young kid, reflecting on what the kingdom of night is, which shows him considering the Holocaust a worldwide darkness that enveloped him and the rest of Germany for the duration of