What Are The Challenges In The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

The snow covered ground, The sounds of parents crying over there dead children's bodies, The smell of smoke in the air, random people huddled together to stay warm. During World War Two this was a reality for some people and in the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel explains his first hand experience being stuck inside a jewish concentration camp, and the issues him and his father faced being jewish. The Jewish characters throughout the book are constantly challenged and have to overcome the challenges . The biggest challenge they all face is leaving their old life behind. During the war jewish families were forced to abandon their homes and all their possessions, and eventually they even lose their humanity and grips on life.

The story

They deny everything that was taught to them by their families and faith and instead they focus on their attempt to survive the horrid conditions. Throughout the months they were forced to watch the death of their peers, and they were going as far as to murder their community members and fellow jews who they used to support. They only cared about maintaining their own life and survival and because of the concentration camps, This once civilized community instead developed into viscous animals because they were being treated as such, showing that the the idea that we as humans will lose touch with everything that makes us who we are when looking in the face of death disaster and abuse. A quote in the book that shows this is when Elizel said that "I was a body. Perhaps less than that even, a starved stomach. The stomach alone wasn't aware of the passage of time(50).” This quote shows the dehumanization that the characters are facing each day and that time in the end kind just blurred together like a broken clock and that no matter what they are put up to they will try to live for as long as they can even if it affects them mentally. I believe that Elie Wiesel wrote the book night as a living record of what happened and as a survivor, Wiesel has no choice but to tell anyone who is willing to listen. He wants to tell his story for the silenced victims who couldn't. Having lost his entire family to the aftermath of the Holocaust, he can only pray that the world we live in can learn from the Jewish people's suffering and prevents history from repeating