Analysis Of Night In Night By Elie Wiesel

The word “night” can be defined literally as ten hours of a 24-hour day that is dark, or metaphorically connoted as a time of evil and sadness. In the memoir Night, composed by Elie Wiesel, readers learn about a negative correlation to the period of time when light no longer appears. Wiesel leaves “a legacy of words” (vii) to ensure the past will never occur again. He explains the story without emoting and describes the events experienced by hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. Night is a metaphor which refers to the darkness in lives, minds, and souls, and symbolizes lost hope, isolation, and transformation. Elie Wiesel’s hope, as well as the rest of the hundreds of Jews’, diminishes tremendously. They originally suppress their
Wiesel's ties with his mother and sister were severed, leaving him alone with only his father, who had never shown much affection physically towards him. Their bond was weak, but as they spent more time facing events that led to their pain, it brought them closer together. This relationship began when eight words were spoken by the SS guard: “Men to the left! Women to the right!” (29). He saw his mother and sister for the last time, before departing with his father to encounter the events that would come. Later, readers come to know that Shlomo, Elie’s father, had wanted to present Elie as a younger boy so Elie could have gone with his mother at the time of separation. This demonstrates how much Shlomo cared for his only son, and the willingness to sacrifice himself into isolation so his son could be with his mother in a safer place. At the end, Elie became the provider and comforter for his father at a time of sickness, switching the parenting roles. During the nighttime, the thought of being alone comes to mind. The darkness doesn’t allow visualization of anyone or anything else, giving the sensation of loneliness, which is how Elie and his father felt by being divided from their