Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

At the beginning of the book a little boy at the age of fifteen is name Elie Wiesel. Had to go through some difficult and challenging positions that he was in.And how he had to find a way to get out of these positions. And the name of the book is called (“NIGHT”) by Elie Wiesel. Now how the Germans and the cops are treating the Jews like dogs. They ended up always getting beat up. For no appertain reason all that is what the symbol night means.

Angelic Pipel In one of Night’s most famous passages, Eliezer states, “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. (” It is the idea of God’s silence that he finds most troubling, as this description of an event at Buna reveals): as the Gestapo hangs a young boy, a man asks, (“Where is God?”) Yet the only response is “total silence throughout the camp (.” Eliezer and his companions are left to wonder how an all-knowing,

On the way to Auschwitz-Burkina, Madame Schachter receives a vision of fire that serves as a premonition of the horror to come. Eliezer also sees the Nazis burning babies in a ditch. Most important, fire is the agent of destruction in the crematoria, where many meet their death at the hands of the Nazis.

The role of fire as a Nazi weapon reverses the role fire plays in the Bible and Jewish tradition. In the Bible, fire is associated with God and divine wrath. God appears to Moses as a burning bush, and vengeful angels wield flaming swords. In post biblical literature, flame also is a force of divine retribution. In Gehenna—the Jewish version of Underworld—the wicked are punished by fire. But in Night, it is the wicked who wield the power of fire, using it to punish the innocent. Such a reversal demonstrates how the experience of the Holocaust has upset Eliezer’s entire concept of the universe, especially his belief in a benevolent, or even just, God.