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  1. Cliff's Notes. Subjects. Why did Elie Wiesel call his autobiography Night? The choice of La Nuit (Night) as the title of Elie Wiesel's documentary-style novel is fitting because it captures both physical darkness and the darkness of the soul.

  2. Night is a 1960 memoir by Elie Wiesel based on his Holocaust experiences with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, toward the end of the Second World War in Europe.

  3. Quick answer: Two reasons for Elie Wiesel titling his memoir Night include the unending physical and spiritual darkness into which he has been plunged and the image of children and babies...

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  5. Elie Wiesel does not tell the reader plainly why he called his book, night. However, there is one passage that shows how powerful and painful his first night was behind barbed wires. According...

  6. Oct 21, 2014 · Simultaneous with the Night selection came news that Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel would shortly be visiting Auschwitz together, from which vantage point Oprah, with the lugubrious Wiesel at her ...

  7. Why did Elie Wiesel write Night? How does Wiesel characterize himself/Eliezer in the novel? What is the significance of the novel’s first-person point of view?

  8. Jan 20, 2008 · The first reviews were positive. Gertrude Samuels, writing in the Book Review, called it a “slim volume of terrifying power.”. Alfred Kazin, writing in The Reporter, said Wiesel’s account of ...

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