Themes Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Throughout reading Night by Elie Wiesel, I recognized that there was not a specified theme, instead there were several different ones, some overlapping with one another and some that were very similar to eachother. In this paper, I will discuss and inform about what some of these themes are, and how they relate to the book. The themes that I have chosen to talk about include the importance of Family, Religion, and Survival.

One of the most prominent themes is family. The most important goals for the prisoners of the concentration camp was to try to stay with their family as long as they could, and to cling to the hope that they too have survived. For some of the inmates, the only thing that was keeping them alive was the knowledge that their

Going into the first nights in the ghettos and the first nights they heard they were going to be removed from their homes, the Jews all stayed faithful to God and continued to extol him. Even during the first year or so of the concentration camp, despite everything, most of their faiths stayed strong. Although as the suffering continues, you see many of the Jews start to lose faith in God or question his reasoning. Elie himself never stops believing in God, but does start to doubt that he is clement and just a God who is also indifferent to suffering, and that he is not someone that he wants to praise. “Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.”(45). In the book you see other Jews experience a similar loss of faith. Akiba Drumer actually gives up and dies once he loses his faith in God, and a Rabbi feels guilty for doubting God and his mercy. In Night, Elie exclaims, “I knew a rabbi, from a small town in Poland… He was always praying, in the block, at work, in the ranks…One day, he said to me: "It’s over. God is no longer with