Commentary On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night, is a Holocaust novel written by Elie Wiesel. The book recounts Wiesel’s traumatic childhood experiences while living through the Holocaust. He discusses the ghettos, the burning of bodies, the pain and suffering, and several other atrocities. During the Holocaust (1938 - 1945), Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and under his reign, an abundant amount of people were being persecuted- the Jews, Jehovah’s witnesses, Homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, and any other citizens that helped those being persecuted. Night is technically not categorized under the traditional literary movements. However, it is classified as Holocaust literature. This “literary movement” are composed of personal anecdotes of life during the Holocaust. Jewish

Night, is an autobiography of Elie’s life and how it has altered. Although the character that portrays Elie Wiesel is not an exact depiction of him, the character still embodies an accurate representation of Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a Jewish teenage, who lived in Sighet, Transylvania. During his adolescence, he was transported throughout Europe on a train from concentration camp to concentration camp. Therefore, Night is about the pain and suffering Wiesel has faced, along with his loss of

For example, Elie Wiesel did mention the nefarious Dr. Mengele, who trialed despicable acts of experimentation on people in the concentration camps. Furthermore, more important than Dr. Mengele, Adolf Hitler was mentioned numerous times throughout the novel. Elie Wiesel also includes Hebrew and Jewish prayers. For instance, at one point in the novel he was whispering heartening words of Jewish prayers for his