Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful survivor story showing the true happenings of the Holocaust through the use of specific imagery and story-telling. While I have read other Holocaust literary pieces, I found his to stand out amongst the others. The words created scenes for you, showing the true terrors these people were going through daily. Wiesel was only a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in Sighet to be sent to Auschwitz and then later to Buchenwald. His testimony as what did happen in those camps were genuine and unforgettable. I personally really enjoyed reading Wiesel’s work, I found his experience interesting and thought-provoking. There are definite themes you can see that are shown in every sort of Holocaust …show more content…
At first they were restricted by how much money they were supposed to keep in the house, then they were not allowed to go to certain restaurants, walk in the parks, or sit on benches. They also were required to wear a star like the Jews in Wiesel’s community, it was just of a different color sense they were in Warsaw, Poland and not Transylvania. In one scene, the pianist’s father was walking down the street wearing the star, and just because of that the Nazi police slapped him and made him walk in the gutter. Some differences between Wiesel and Szpilman is their family wealth. They were at a different level in the beginning than the other Jews in Warsaw, they had the money to keep healthy and the rankings/skills of finding better jobs in the Ghetto. For example, it kept Henryk from being taken from the streets and to help them get employment papers to delay them from being deported. But eventually, their family wealth meant nothing and they no longer all had that advantage. Wladek was lucky enough to be taken by the Jewish Police and able to hide in the ghetto before taken to work for the Nazis and eventually escape temporarily (Harwood and