Night By Elie Wiesel Weather In Night

From the scorching heat of the desert to the bone-chilling cold of the winter, weather can be a formidable antagonist that tests the resilience of the human spirit. Elie Wiesel's "Night" conveys the profound emotional and physical pain endured by the prisoners of the Holocaust. The unbearable temperatures that suffocated the concentration camps serve as a reflection of the inhumane conditions they faced. The heat gives a glimpse into the physical and emotional anguish endured by Wiesel and his fellow prisoners. Additionally, the heat serves as a haunting reminder of the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. Overall, the contrasting weather patterns in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, prove that when faced with adversity, even in the most

The first example of this is before Elie and his father even arrive at Auschwitz. They are forced to stand in cattle cars for days with a lack of both food and water. The conditions were so intense that people began to die and hallucinate. “We began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable” The scene highlights the inhumane conditions the prisoners were subjected to and eluded to the horror they will face when they arrive at the camps. In this example Wiesel uses the heat to foreshadow that their situation was only going to get worse. Another example of a similar situation that the prisoners were in is when they were living in the concentration camp barracks. The barracks were overstuffed with prisoners making it extremely hot and uncomfortable for everyone. In chapter 3, Wiesel describes that the conditions in the barracks became so unbearable that some prisoners experienced hallucinations and became delusional. Wiesel writes “The heat was unbearable. We were all thirsty, It was as if a strange story of paralysis had taken hold of us.” The quote both illustrates that physical and psychological hold the heat had put on the prisoners. Overall in the story heat is used as a metaphor for oppression and dehumanization in the concentration camps, and as an example of the inhumane conditions that the prisoners were subject