Night By Elie Wiesel: Chapter Analysis

The chapter begins with the family of Eliezer heading towards an "unknown location." Throughout this journey, the protagonist becomes more aware of this situation and evolves into a different person altogether. I think from the moment Eliezer's family had been on that train; there has been a significant change in the outlook for the future of their family. Eliezer sort of went from believing everything, to being more ignorant and hopeless about his situation. As stated, everyone ignored Ms. Schäcther who repeatedly said something related to a fire around them, "The fire over there!" Even though, there was evidently no fire around them this was a little suspicious to me. I think Ms. Schäcther was warning the Jewish people about the horrible events that are possible in the future. I believe that the …show more content…
Afterwards, there was another hint given by the author at the point of separation from his mother and sisters. The author portrays it by showing the "Secret man" who showed up and began to talk to them. First and foremost, he asked their age and told them to declare a different age. The age for Eliezer was "eighteen" and for his dad "forty." It was strange at first but, eventually, it made sense as the author was trying to explain the consequences of being "too old" and "too young" for the Nazi party which would result in death. In my opinion, the most brutal, cruel, evil, and disgusting part occurred in this segment, which the author illustrated in this chapter. The Cremation of living babies! This whole idea of killing babies was a shock to me and made me question the world as a whole. Not only that, they were unloaded from a truck, which makes them more in numbers. I think after this incident of witnessing such an event Eliezer began to question the existence of god and how god could let such things