Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

Alone or Together About six million Jews out of the nine million living in Europe died in the holocaust during World War II. The concentration camps are a well known tragedy of Germany. Many Jews go taken away from their families and were sent on marches to the death camps where they got worked to the bone. Elie and his family were part of the unlucky crowd that had to get separated from each other and work in the death camp. When words weren’t able to express the hardship, Elie used the help of motifs. By looking at Night, by Elie Wiesel, one can see how through, “night” and “eyes”, the repeating motifs build on the way Elie overcomes his struggles with his father’s help, even when he feels being alone will benefit him most.
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At one point in the story, Elie got hurt and had surgery on his foot. The front was arriving for liberation so the Germans were in a hurry to get the Jews to a new camp. Elie was supposed to stay so he could keep recovering, but when he heard the news, he decided to loyally follow his father into the march, despite his foot. Even though it caused Elie much pain, Elie still joined his father. He painfully recalls, “I had up my mind to accompany my father… Night had fallen. Everything was happening according to plan. The searchlights came on. Hundreds of SS appeared out of the darkness with police dogs. The snow continued to fall” (82,84). Night is when reality is more brutal. At night it's cold and dark and scary. The sense of it being night, the people had no idea where they were going and for how long, really added stress to Elie. He needs his father’s life experience to help him in this distraught time. Another time Elie showed family commitment was when he stayed right by his struggling father during the run. He watched Rabbi Eliahu desperately searching for his son after the run, as they got separated. Like many of the boys searching for survival, they would leave their fathers because they