Elie Wiesel's Book Night

The tragic story of a boy and his journey through a living hell. This would be the kindest way to explain how Elie Wiesel lived in his book, Night. Elie Wiesel was a strong and brave young man who looked death in the face and survived. He was one of the few who miraculously survived in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Buna. Elie Wiesel was of Jewish descent born on September 30, 1928 and passed away July 2, 2016. Wiesel had his book, Night published in 1960 by the Hill & Wang company in New York. Although, before writing the book Wiesel “observed a self-imposed vow of silence and wrote nothing about his wartime experience (for ten years)” according to the Academy of Achievements. Once written and published the book was …show more content…
Upon doing so the imprisoned Jews were relocated once again. But this time they ran, they ran until they couldn't run anymore, if they were to stop either they were shot down by SS Soldiers or they were trampled over by other man who could keep going. They ran almost fifty-five miles. This still was not the end. Once again they were rounded up into cattle wagons, this time in groups of a hundred since the men were practically flesh and bones, they looked like zombies walking into the carts. On this ride men were dropping in mass numbers, the train would stop every day to throw out the dead bodies on the sides of the railroad tracks. Finally Wiesel and his father, Shlomo, arrived in Buchenwald. Upon the last journey, unfortunately Shlomo crossed his Rubicon, he passed away in Buchenwald on January 29,1945 and Elie Wiesel was left an orphan in these horrid concentration camps, he had no one to depend on but himself now. Then on April 10, 1945 Elie Wiesel was liberated, a resistance act was put into play and Elie was now a free man, a perilous journey was forced upon young Wiesel and he fortunately made it through. This novel was brilliantly written and full of hidden impactful meaning from the way the book’s structure was set up to the literary devices used, the overall theme of the book, and even the title of the book. Through the story Elie Wiesel was …show more content…
Elie Wiesel wrote his book in the order most of the events happened every now and then he would have flashbacks or tell of people he ran into in the future. When Wiesel would write in his monotonous and short sentence structure he was trying to emphasise the fear and pain that was running through his veins. For example he said, “...and he began to beat him with an iron bar.” Just short blunt and to the point, Elie Wiesel is putting it out clear as day the suffering he faced. He did not need to make the situation more dramatic than it needed to be, although, Wiesel also used very long run-on sentences as well. When he would do so he was building up suspense to major events in the novel. For example Wiesel wrote, “I listened to him without interrupting, he was right, I thought in the most secret region of my heart, but I dared not to admit it.” Wiesel was reaching a turning point in the story he was beginning to do the unimaginable, he was facing a character shift he hoped that he would not have to. Elie Wiesel was changing since the moment he entered the camp. It reflects through his writing as well as more memories returned to him during him, his writing shift to more realistic sense pulling you into the story making it as though you lived through the same nightmares as