The author is Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania who was studying religion before his family was forced into a Nazi death camp Auschwitz during WWII. During the time he was in Auschwitz his family was killed. He moved to New York in 1955 and became a US citizen in 1963. He got married to Marion Rose in 1969 in Jerusalem. He then went on to writing books and nonfiction works. He also became an international activists and figure of peace over the years. He was also a Humanities Professor at Boston University. He died July 2, 2016 in Manhattan. He also wrote other books like The Night Trilogy, Dawn, The Trial of God, etc. His most noted accomplishment would be winning the Noble Peace Prize, which he received in 1986. Elie Wiesel …show more content…
This is shown throughout the book by sending the Jews to Nazi concentration camps and saying that their way of life is wrong and it needs to be fixed. People always like to be superior to one another and in this book you see people taking control over others for the way they practice religion or the way they do certain things and society just allows it. In Night the author shows Eliezer losing faith because he did not understand why anything bad was happening and was wondering what everyone did wrong to be punished. Everyone seemed to lose faith in God in the concentration camps because they felt He was not there to help them in any way possible and that He did not really exist if He let the Nazi abuse them the way they …show more content…
The author also does not use any type of secondary source. The author mainly uses his experience and applies this to the book to make it more personal to him and his readers if anyone has gone through what he shows in the book. He does not use any pictures physically but he does use imagery so when you 're reading you can actually picture what is going on at that time and see what things look like from his point of view. He does not have anywhere that he tells us a list of books for us to further our knowledge but he goes pretty in detail throughout the book of what happened and how everything happened and tells the story like he was there when everything happened and made it feel real when you read it. The author also does not use any maps but tells us where they are and describes the setting of the places that they are