In the night one is frightened trying to determine whether one should undergo the perception of being fearful and unattended or to be hopeful and wanting to get through the position one is in during war and the separation of loved and dear ones. This is the darkness and negativity affecting people who may have been in the holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, portrays such graphic and traumatizing experiences one may have gone through in the holocaust, which establishes night and darkness as a key subject to focus on throughout the book, it may be used metaphorically or literally in such context. A theme that may be used is to lose one's perception and ones self worth may also lose their humanity and feelings along with it when going
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How they were making them feel worthless and how they were making them feel all these negative things, Ellie tried to keep his faith but at the end of it he just couldn't do it anymore. One piece of evidence that supports that is “PRESSED TIGHTLY AGAINST one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories” (page 98). This shows that Elie is losing himself in the process of being physically and mentally abused by these people and he cant take it anymore. Which this also goes along with the theme, by how it represents that Elie is going through this traumatic experience and he's losing himself along the way. Another piece of evidence is “AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAMP, SS officers were waiting for us. We were counted… The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (page 104). When Ellie says that he doesn't want to lose “him” he's talking about his father. His father is the only family he has now that his other family members were taken away, Ellie is living inn in the dark and in fear of losing his father, he's scared. This connects to the theme by how he is once again in fear, of many things but his ain fear is losing his father and he's losing everything and he doesn't want to lose anything else he doesn't want to become any less of a person he doesnt ant to become any less
How they were making them feel worthless and how they were making them feel all these negative things, Ellie tried to keep his faith but at the end of it he just couldn't do it anymore. One piece of evidence that supports that is “PRESSED TIGHTLY AGAINST one another, in an effort to resist the cold, our heads empty and heavy, our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories” (page 98). This shows that Elie is losing himself in the process of being physically and mentally abused by these people and he cant take it anymore. Which this also goes along with the theme, by how it represents that Elie is going through this traumatic experience and he's losing himself along the way. Another piece of evidence is “AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAMP, SS officers were waiting for us. We were counted… The old, familiar fear: not to lose him” (page 104). When Ellie says that he doesn't want to lose “him” he's talking about his father. His father is the only family he has now that his other family members were taken away, Ellie is living inn in the dark and in fear of losing his father, he's scared. This connects to the theme by how he is once again in fear, of many things but his ain fear is losing his father and he's losing everything and he doesn't want to lose anything else he doesn't want to become any less of a person he doesnt ant to become any less