The obvious presence of irony in Night by Elie Wiesel brings out the contrast of of expectation versus reality. One such instance was when the Jews were traveling, and the train had stopped in Auschwitz, in which the Jews were given orders to get to their final destination. Auschwitz promised a decent life for the captives, for “There was a labor camp on site. The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields” (Wiesel 27). Through the usage of the terms “old” and “sick”, the simple proposition that everyone would be taken care of seems too good to be true. This passage is quite ironic, because the Jews arrived to the labor camp believing
