"Night" is a work by Ellie Wiesel. This memoire depicts a deeply troubled adolescent, during World War II. Throughout the novel Ellie provides fragments of the brutality and inhumanity he suffered because of his Jewish ethnicity. In May of 1944, the Germans deported a fifteen year old Wiesel and his family in Poland. Darkness ultimately casts a shadow over Wiesel when his father perished just months before the concentration camp was liberated by the United States in April 1945. The theory I have chosen is historical biographical because the reader is able to visualize the injustice and cruelty of the Nazi concentration camps through the lens of the author as he recounts the hardships he encountered during World War II. Furthermore, the historical
