Reflection For Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel is a horrific and brutal account of the sufferings of a concentration camp prisoner in the time of the Holocaust. Although based on Mr Wiesel’s own experience, he tells it from the viewpoint of a young, fictional character named Eliezer. It is a slight alteration of what actually occurred to the author and his father during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in the Nazi German concentration camps as a Jew. The themes throughout the book are very dark hence the title Night. The events that Mr. Weisel recounts throughout this book bring faith into question along with the larceny of one’s identity during this time. The time of the Holocaust and World War II are especially significant to my family’s legacy. This personal connection to the subject drew me to this book through a tie with my paternal grandmother. She

In reality, he’s an innocent, young student who is about to mature to great lengths through his experience and survival. In the camp, all prisoners wear the same garb and are identified by numbers. They are no longer individuals. Taking away their names and their freedom also takes away their humanity, and they act in self-deceit in order to survive. There’s a lack of moral code that the prisoners must now come to identify with. Eventually, many die and are carelessly and thoughtlessly buried or burned without a chance to be memorialized. When this atrocity ends, the survivors take on a new part of their identity along with those who are mourned. Either way, they are forever a victim of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is proof of this because it is through his story of survival that he is so widely known and respected. In the bigger picture of things, the Holocaust is part of this planet’s identity and that is shown by the fact that we are still studying it in class today on a continent apart from where it