Elie Wiesel, a winner of the Nobel peace prize, was a young boy at the time of the holocaust. He encountered first hand the countless horrors of the concentration camps which included the torture and mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. Wiesel wrote these numerous terrors in a book entitled Night in order to bring to light and preserve these unimaginable occurrences that stand as a dark time in our world's history. The title of this memoir, Night, is directly correlated with the constant metaphor throughout the book. Night holds a literal, spiritual, and metaphorical meaning describing the night that occurs through Wiesel's record of the holocaust.
In Night the literal understanding of the title is the hours in which the sun does not shine also known as the hours between sunset and sunrise. During these hours various significant advancements occur in the book allowing the plot to progress forward and the characters to further develop. For instance, “Night fell” while Wiesel's father told stories and was then interrupted by Stern, who summoned Wiesel’s father “Despite the darkness, I could see my father turn pale” (Night 12). It is later revealed that his father was informed about the deportation of the Jews that was scheduled in the near future. This event allows the Jews time to prepare for the journey and eventually the transport to the Jewish concentration camps. Furthermore, the transport and arrival at the first concentration camp also transpire at night. As
In Night the literal understanding of the title is the hours in which the sun does not shine also known as the hours between sunset and sunrise. During these hours various significant advancements occur in the book allowing the plot to progress forward and the characters to further develop. For instance, “Night fell” while Wiesel's father told stories and was then interrupted by Stern, who summoned Wiesel’s father “Despite the darkness, I could see my father turn pale” (Night 12). It is later revealed that his father was informed about the deportation of the Jews that was scheduled in the near future. This event allows the Jews time to prepare for the journey and eventually the transport to the Jewish concentration camps. Furthermore, the transport and arrival at the first concentration camp also transpire at night. As