How Does Elie Wiesel Deserve The Title Night

Night, the very title suggests a dark and horrifying story. It truly deserves that title, because of the dark story of Elie Wiesel’s life. He is relocated to a concentration camp from a very young age. He recounts his life before, the struggles he faced within the camp, his loss of faith, and his rescue by the American forces. Night deserves it’s title because of the darkness of Elie’s life, the darkness brought upon others, and as the Holocaust was one if not the darkest time in human history. To begin, we will start with the story of Elie Wiesel. He was a young Jewish boy from Transylvania in Hungary. He was strong in his faith and he wanted to dive into the mysticism of it. At the age of 15, he and his family were shuttled by train to Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. This started a stage of disbelief and loneliness for Elie. He felt abandoned by the world, abandoned by God, and he began to forsake his hope. Elie also claims that he has “emerged from the Kingdom of Night” (Wiesel 119). He has escaped the darkness of his past, but it still haunts him. This certainly marks an infamous time in Elie’s life, a possible reason for naming the book Night.

Millions of people were killed, deported, are hunted by the Nazis. The rest of the world saw the influence of Hitler on the German people, but it was certainly quite delayed. The Nazi policy of dehumanization, the act of denying the Jews and other selected groups basic rights, was a main element in Hitler’s plan. If you can make them not appear as dirt or a disease, people won’t object to you disposing of them. The prisoners so often witnessed death that Elie says, “The soup tasted of corpses”(Wiesel 65). This hatred towards the Jews is another reason for the title of the book,