Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when the prisoners who were taken to war, were forced to commit suicide. “Without passion and haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one & offered their necks.” (weisel, 6)
The jews were forced to dig their own graves and then shot to death. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are disbelief and loss of faith. One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause disbelief. In the book Night it shows a sign of disbelief in many parts of the book. Furthermore, In the story Moshie was taken into war and brought back in shock of what he encountered. “Yes i did see this, with my own eyes,

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