What Is The Setting Of The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

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The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of Wiesel's experience in the concentration camps of the Nazi Holocaust. In the book, the author was a young jewish teenager who lived in Sighet, Transylvania when Hitler began his Final Solution. Wiesel then explained the rapid deterioration of the Jewish lifestyle through accounts of how his family was pushed out of their homes and into Jewish ghettos. He continued to decr being loaded onto a train sent to Auschwitz where half of his family members would die. Throughout the rest of the book, Wiesel struggled with many internal and external conflicts inside the camps, until he was liberated after nine months later. In the autobiography Night by Elie Wiesel, the author included three …show more content…

Wiesel lost his faith, another incredibly powerful moment in the book is when the author had to run forty-two miles on a bad foot in one night to be able to survive.First of all, this moment showed many different character’s traits in the book, especially Mr. Wiesel. When the were running, the characters had the choice to live or die, and the author chose to live. This moment showcased the author's trait of determination to survive this nightmare when the odds were against him. At the same time this moment contributed to character development, it also contributed to the setting of the book. The setting in the part of the book changes form a concentration camp with barracks and crematoriums to a massive herd of people running for their lives in the middle of the night. With the help of the new setting, the author created suspense for the audience. As author described his struggle to keep going as he ran for his life, he added moments where he saw other people fail to keep going and die in the herd. This causes the audience to fear for both his father and Wiesel’s life as they ran through the night. The author used all three of these aspects to make this scene very impactful to the greater context of this text because they show the importance of this …show more content…

Ever since Mr. Wiesel and his father entered the camps, their father and son roles reversed and for the most of the story the author took care of his father(especially toward the end of his dad’s life). When his father did finally die, it resolved Wiesel's internal conflict that he had been having over whether or not he should help him father at the risk of his wellbeing. This was shown when Wiesel illustrated how he did not cry over his father's death. When Wiesel described his reaction to his father's death, he created an ashamed tone that showed more about how he felt about his reaction then about his father's death. The author explained how at the time there was a small part of him that was relieved, and we he looked back at this moment, the audience can tell that Wiesel felt ashamed of that part of himself. In addition to creating a tone and resolving internal conflict, the moment when Wiesel’s dad died demonstrated a solemn mood. The audience has watched these two men struggle to stay alive and together in the concentration camp, and when Wiesel’s father could no longer hold on, it created a solemn mood for the audience. There is no doubt that the author loved his father but in the moment he died it created both a strong mood and tone as well as resolved an internal conflict, thus making it a very important moment in the

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