Point Of View Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Night is a vexing and disturbing autobiography portrayed through a main character that is a replica of the author. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, keeps the audience on the edge of their seats as they read the truth of what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and the death marches through the first person point of view throughout the entire novel. The tale of a child who loses his homeland, his family, his health, and his faith all within a hellish year during World War II. The first person point of view allows the reader to experience the emotions and growth of a boy who not only survives the Holocaust but transforms into a man who barely recognizes himself. The author, Elie Wiesel, represents his life as mirrored through Eliezer

The Germans began creating edicts before the eight days of Passover was even completed. On the seventh day of Passover, the Jewish community leaders were arrested and they were prohibited from leaving their residences. The next several edicts led to the Jewish people being separated from their neighbors in obvious ways. They were singled out, identified, and labeled by being ordered to wear yellows stars, instructed to close their restaurants and stores, not being allowed to attend synagogue, and forced into two ghettos. Eliezer’s life was dramatically altered through each of these new rules and further separated from the very community he should have been able to rely upon. Two weeks before Shavout, Nazi soldiers began to load many of the Jewish people into cattle cars. They were carted away, much like the very cattle the cars should have held, with little regard to their humanity and turned over to concentration camps. Eliezer’s Christian maid begged his family to come hide with her and her family in the mountains; however, Eliezer’s father turned her down wanting to stay with his community and family. After being loaded into a convoy of cattle cars that held eighty people in each, Eliezer and his family headed into Kaschau, Czechoslovakia and eventually into Auschwitz. Their crime? They were Jewish which meant they were without rights and, according to Nazi beliefs, unfit to