Night In Elie Wiesel's Night

The night started off as just a normal night. Then as you got deeper in the book many nights became terrifying and miserable. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses night as a motif to demonstrate that most nights became fearful and depressing, as shown in the scene where it was their last night at home, the scene where everyone was sleeping uncomfortably and cold, all squished together, and the scene where he started questioning his faith in God for letting people get tortured day and night.
“It was to be the last night spent in our house.” (Page 43).The very next day they were going to be deported to what is known as the start of a nightmare, the ghetto. The ghetto is just the beginning. Their home was where they felt safe. The next day they are moving to a place they don’t know. The ghetto was crowded and it wasn’t clean. Trash was all over the place. They are still home. Sleeping. They didn’t want the night to …show more content…
They were all on train heading towards the camp. The nightmare was getting greater and greater. They were only on the train. The train was freezing. People tried to stay warm using other people’s body warmth by huddling together. A lady swore she saw fire, but no one else saw anything. She screamed and cried no matter how many times people told her to shut up. Then she was right. There was fire burning people of all ages.
“Master of the universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night. (Page 92). Everyone questioned their faith in God. Everyone wanted to know, Why them? Of all people. They realized that man was greater than God. They realized that it wasn’t God doing this to all the innocent children, parents, cousins, friends, brothers and sisters. It was man. But they were upset that God allowed this to happen. They felt betrayed. All they did was ask for forgiveness of any sins they have