Objectivity In Night

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Elie Wiesel’s novel, Night, is another autobiography an experience during the Holocaust. What sets this book apart is Elie Wiesel’s own story. While many autobiographies from that time are full of torture and suffering, a pathetic life barely surviving until liberation, Elie’s story is different. He makes the decision to continue on with the harder path, not only against certain death, but against potential death. He does this when he decides to leave the camp with the rest of the prisoners even though he has recently undergone foot surgery. Not only his the lack of deplorability in his story, but the objectivity. While the book is an autobiography, Wiesel does not wallow in self pity and how awful his life is. He says, “Yes, the Nazis did

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