Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

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Night in the book is expressing the dark times of the holocaust which caused many miseries and horrendous pain and death to numerous of jews that have been captured because of their beliefs and religion. The title can be interpreted both literally and figuratively for the meaning of night because the book has inferior effects happening there and figuratively, there was darkness coming to the jews which risked them their lives. In other words, this memoir was one of the dark ages for everyone in sight since the Germans came to their town ruining their peace. For example, everybody was terrified to know that they came to their house. This resulted in ignoring it because they do not want to think about them and try not to get in their way. Moreover,

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