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Innocent Children In Night By Elie Wiesel

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How could one treat an innocent child so cruel? During the time of the genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million people from the Jewish population, children were the main target. By looking at the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, one can see through the use of imagery, diction and conflict that innocent children were starved abused separated from their family,and killed during the Holocaust, which is important because young innocent children should never have to be deprived of their childhood.

First, children of the Holocaust were abused or beaten for any wrong move that they made or even attempted to make. In the book Night, Elie, a young teenage, was lashed twenty five times with a whip all

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