Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Silence In the book night Night by Elie Wiesel, the word silence sticks out to me. Ironically the word which means “complete absence of sound” speaks wonders about not only this book but the holocaust as well. It also speaks about the shaky faith the author was having with God. God is supposed to be the almighty and all powerful who is in control of all things, so why would he sit back and do nothing while Germans were killing many innocent Jews. Silence is shown in this book by the sadness in which there is throughout their time in the concentration camps and it is also shown by the aftermath of a traumatic event taking place. First, we’ll talk about god. He is the creator of the heavens and earth, the almighty and all powerful. Yet he stayed silent and allowed millions and have people die at the hand of the German Nazis or at least that’s how a young Elie Wiesel thought. I’m sure any commandment Elie had broken was not so bad that he and his people had to be punished by the almighty and powerful god with …show more content…
He thought that there wasn’t a single person out there trying to help him and his people and that eventually they’d all die. “I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?”(32) Although he did not know that there was a war going on and that eventually he and his people would be free. But this silence that was in the concentration camps due to the Jews not being able to stay up to date with the outside world is what gave the Nazis yet another advantage. The Jews not hearing about the rest of the world fighting with the Nazis is what caused them to give up hope and when you’re holding millions of people captive, their spirits being broken and low is something that’ll help you in the long run. That way, they are more likely to follow orders and not fight