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Night Elie Wiesel Purpose

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To read is to feel connected; to feel as though we are not alone, each of us read for a different purpose. Just like reading authors have a purpose for writing. The purpose behind Elie Wiesel novel “Night” is the duty he felt as a survivor, he felt as though he was a messenger and needed to tell the world about this catastrophe. There are many aspects that make a novel good and bad, each is determined by the details given by the author, but also the lack of detail can make a novel feel as if it’s bad because it leaves us hanging; wanting for more. There is always a way the author can make their novel better, just like with everything there’s always room for improvement. Wiesel wrote his novel for more than simply wanting to share his story with his reader, he wrote “Night” because he felt, “I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel, 6), he believed he survived for a reason not simply by luck or chance. Although there are many controversy as to why he wrote his novel, in his interview with “The Paris Review” he address as to why, “I didn’t want to write those books. I wrote them against myself. But I realize that if we do not use words, the …show more content…

In his interview with “the Paris Review”, he talks about “Night” and what it really means to him,” Night is not a novel, it’s an autobiography. It’s a memoir. It’s testimony “(Wiesel) all his written work ends up having a connection to his first novel, writing “night” made him want to share more of himself with his readers. Although throughout his novel Wiesel leave us wanting more. We feel as if there are details in his life that he holds back from his readers, either because they mean to much and he wants to feel a sense of privacy or because they are still too vivid in his mind to write

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