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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? What does night symbolize? What gives Eliezer the strength to survive the Holocaust? What happens when Moishe is deported from Sighet? What does Madame Schächter’s nightmare foreshadow?
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? What does night symbolize? What gives Eliezer the strength to survive the Holocaust? What happens when Moishe is deported from Sighet? What does Madame Schächter’s nightmare foreshadow?
While Night is Elie Wiesel’s testimony about his experiences in the Holocaust, Wiesel is not, precisely speaking, the story’s protagonist. Night is narrated by a boy named Eliezer who represents Wiesel, but details differentiate the character Eliezer from the real-life Wiesel.
Night is the first book in a trilogy Wiesel wrote about the Holocaust. The others, Dawn and Day, are novels, whereas Night is generally considered to be a memoir. Night has become one of the most prominent pieces of literature about the Holocaust.
God’s first act is to create light and dispel this darkness. Darkness and night therefore symbolize a world without God’s presence. In Night, Wiesel exploits this allusion. Night always occurs when suffering is worst, and its presence reflects Eliezer’s belief that he lives in a world without God. The first time Eliezer mentions that ...
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Book Summary. In 1944, in the village of Sighet, Romania, twelve-year-old Elie Wiesel spends much time and emotion on the Talmud and on Jewish mysticism. His instructor, Moshe the Beadle, returns from a near-death experience and warns that Nazi aggressors will soon threaten the serenity of their lives. However, even when anti-Semitic measures ...
