Night And Sold Analysis

Evil plays a role in society along with losing innocence in which working together forms maturity. Human nature shows their lack of immaturity through evil’s eyes in Night and Sold by using Lakshmi and Elie in different lifestyles. By examining the novels Night and Sold we can see that evil takes the innocence out of children which is important because without evil, innocence exists in human nature to those who have not matured. In Sold, Lakshmi is not innocent due to the evil presented towards her. In the Happiness House, Mumatz symbolizes the evil because of her strict orders of what their work is to pay off the never-ending debt. When Lakshmi is in the brothel, she is brought into the brothel naive to the situation. Her prostitution is the evil that begins to mature her. “Sometimes i see a girl who is growing into womanhood. Other days I see a girl growing …show more content…
In the concentration camps, the german police were the evil advance this gullible boy into a self sufficient man. He is always blocked in with the evil forcing unnecessary jobs to these people who have done nothing to mess with them. His starvation is a thing the evils bring towards the people in these camps, but it helps him realize what it’s like to be treated badly. “...I was afraid of having to wish him a Happy New Year when i no longer believed in it” (75). Elie finally sees that the evil is taking over his thoughts, and stops believing in a ‘childish’ holiday. New Year's is all about wishes coming for a brighter year, but the camp decides to bring the negativity into their mind and help everyone grow up and stop the daydreaming of nice things. They were showing the reality of what is happening to them, and not to get stuck behind or be left behind. Elie Wiesel grows into manhood with these camps as a boost, but learns evil wants them to be susceptible and die rather than know the patterns to go along with evil for a path of