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  • Essay / In Between Darkness - 683

    Night by Elie Wiesel is the gripping story of Wiesel's childhood, set behind barbed wire and the endless suffering of the concentration camps of World War II. Elijah's journey through the concentration camps robs him of his faith in God and exposes him to the deepest inhumanity of which man is capable. Despite this exposure, Wiesel maintains his devotion to his father. People associate the night with evil, darkness and the unknown. For concentration camp prisoners, life was like an endless night. This explains Wiesel's choice of word for his title. According to creationism, there was darkness before light. "Now the Earth was surprisingly empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep...And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated between light and darkness. Night is when the most significant parts of the story take place. Once in the camp, the prisoners crave the darkness, the night. reality a death wish. To begin with, according to creationism, when God created the world, there was darkness before light. Prisoners live in darkness, they live in a world. full of evil and the unknown, they don't know what their future holds for them On the cattle car “There was still a little food left. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to save, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be even worse." (Wiesel 23) Prisoners always prepared for the future, they never imagined what the next day might bring, they saved resources and food while waiting for another day dark While the cattle cars rolled over the prisoners ...... middle of paper ...... it will be over A little red flame... A shot... Death to me. enveloped me, it stuck to me like glue. I felt like I could touch it. The idea of ​​dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. no longer feel the excruciating pain in my foot. No longer feel anything, no fatigue, no cold, nothing, let myself slide to the side of the road… (6.17)” Later, Wiesel’s body suffers so much. that death begins to seem attractive as an escape from suffering Wiesel is literally surrounded by death and fully realizes his own mortality. In conclusion, the title Night makes this book better because it is just a word but can be analyzed both figuratively and literally. This title means so much to the victims of the concentration camps...their lives were endless torture, endless fear of the unknown, a nightmare..