Night by Elie Wiesel is the gripping story of Wiesel's childhood, spent behind barbed wire and the endless suffering of the concentration camps of the Second World War. Elie's journey through the concentration camps strips him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite this exposure, Wiesel maintains his devotion to his father. People link the night to evil, darkness and the unknown. For concentration camp prisoners, life was like an incessant night. Thus explains Wiesel's choice of the word for his title. According to creationism, before there was light there was darkness. "Now the Earth was surprisingly empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep... And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated between them the light and in the darkness." Night is the time when the most significant parts of the story emerge. Once the Prisoners are in the camp they feel the desire for darkness, for the night. Which is actually a death wish. You need to summarize it in one sentence. To begin with, according to creationism, when God created the world there was darkness before there was light. The prisoners live in darkness, they live in a world full of evil and the unknown, they are unaware of what the future holds for them. On the cattle car "There was still some food. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to save, save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be even worse." (Wiesel 23) Prisoners were always prepared for the future, never worrying about what the next day might bring, saving resources and food in anticipation of a darker day. As the cattle cars dragged the prisoners they were... half of the paper... it will be over. I will fall. A small red flame... A shot... Death enveloped me, suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to exist, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. Of not feeling anything anymore, not the tiredness, not the cold, nothing. Break ranks, let me slide by the side of the road… (6.17)” Later Wiesel's body suffers so much that death begins to seem attractive as an escape from suffering. Wiesel is literally surrounded by death and fully realizes his own mortality. In conclusion, the title Night makes this book better because it is one word but can be analyzed both figuratively and literally. This title has such great meaning for the concentration camp victims...their lives were endless torture, endless fear of the unknown, a nightmare.
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