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“Night exposes much that is wrong with human nature and reveals little that is right.” Discuss.

Another reference to night is the night before the family is taken to the ghetto, Eliezer explains, “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire, which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

Night: a pitch-black time of day in which no light is shown, other than the reflection of sunlight off of the moon's surface. Darkness is scary when alone and can also be dangerous to those not cautious. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of something so gruesome but inspiring to all people who have read the Nobel Peace Prize winner's novel. Elie was trapped in a darkness he could not escape until the world once realized it was not all about themselves. To be free and living a life worth living then in a matter of seconds, being confined as though you are a zoo animal. Only to be observed at a distance with no pity or thought that lies behind those caged doors; And once that caged animal is released, not all of it is free.

The more of the world a person sees, the more he/she realizes that it is not as perfect as he/she thinks it is. When one matures, he/she gains knowledge and experiences that affect how he/she act and think. Their perspective of the world changes either positively or negatively. Night, an autobiographical memoir written by Elie Wiesel, tells of the horrors he faced as a child during the Holocaust. The more the readers read about his experiences, the more they see how his perspectives change throughout the novel. Emily Dickinson's poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” explains how one must conquer his/her fear in order to see more of the world. The way we perceive things change as we gain more knowledge and experience of the world we live in.

Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on giving the reader a precise understanding of the Holocaust from the perspective of a man who endured it. In order to vividly describe the situation, Wiesel uses specific words or phrases to signify the importance and value behind it. Wiesel writes, “Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes” (Wiesel 21). “Night” is used abundantly throughout the book. In today’s American society, night is for rejuvenation, peace,

The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery, and mood, each poet makes clear the fact that there is no single darkness that is too difficult to overcome.

Night is filled with a multitude of memorable and meaningful quotes. Elie Wiesel’s words speak about the horrors, feelings, and questions that many victims of the Holocaust had.

Night is a ‘record’ of Elie Wiesel’s (who is both the author and the main character) memories from the holocaust. He is taken from his home in Sighet, and goes through several concentration camps. Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz and Buchenwald are where each concentration is. In the beginning of the book, Eliezer is seen praying very often and he has a very strong faith in god. As the book goes on, he loses faith and by the end of the book he believes there is no god.

When you hear the word night we get this connotation of a scary,dark, and horrifying feeling. This can relate to the same feeling Wiesel perceives while watching his own father get beaten to death. It’s this empty somewhat evil feeling which is detected by the word night. The word night relates to Wiesel’s experience in the concentration camp since it's mostly dehumanization where one can envision a dark creepy soul without anything inside. In the beginning of the memoir before going to the concentration camp Wiesel foreshadows his “night” experience in the Holocaust.

This quote shows horrible and nightmarish the Holocaust was, and it embodies how the Holocaust casted a shadow over his life. The book is titled ‘Night’ because it is a reference to all of the darkness that occurred during the Holocaust. Another reason Elie Wiesel may have titled his book ‘Night’ is because the rest of the world was ‘in the dark’ about what was happening during WWII in concentration camps. Given that the "world" did nothing to stop the Holocaust, at first, Elie could have felt that the world turned its back on those victimized, brutalized, and killed during the Holocaust.

“Night” by Elie Wiesel was written so that nobody could ever forget the hardships the Jews went through during The Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had the motivation to liquidate every Jew without knowing what happened in the concentration camps. Although the title sounds peaceful, it has a double meaning: figurative and literal.

In the beginning of the bible, the world was dark. Then God created light in order to make it brighter. However, when the God is not here to protect the light, Night overtook. It is a time of darkness. It is also a place where people cannot see and help each other. Because of the faith in God, the darkness, hopeless of Night, and the period of Night, Elle Wiesel’s famous short novel is called “Night”, which is very significant for Elle Wiesel as well as the Jews during World War II.

In Night, Elie Wiesel uses the word “night” literally to indicate nighttime and metaphorically to symbolize dark ideas such as death, evil, ruthlessness, immorality and the loss of will to live. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah Elie says that “Night was falling rapidly” (Wiesel 66). The use of “night” here two purposes; the first is to tell the time which is literal, but the metaphorical use of it expresses darkness and sorrow of the Jewish people. The end of the year deserves celebration, but that year, the Jews had no reason to celebrate. Wiesel uses “night” to imply the darkness and sorrow the Jews felt during that time. After starting to evacuate, Elie expresses his hopelessness and despair: “The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though

Elie in the book he interprets the title literally ,because for him night was the time where everyone was quite sleeping and he could get away.For example,in the book “Night” he would always see horrible stuff, as for his parents dying at night. Eventually it got to a point where everything bad would happen in the night ,However he used the word