Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel is one of his many novels that he has written in his life. Wiesel is a holocaust survivor that went through terrible time just as other survivors did. Ten years later Wiesel writes his novel Night and shares his story of surviving the holocaust. Wiesel story of surviving the holocaust triggers many emotional connections. Wiesel makes relate in way when he writes. For example, Wiesel beings to doubt God really exist, is God really his savior. Wiesel states, “Why do you go on troubling these poor people’s wounded minds, their ailing bodies?” (Wiesel 84). In other words, Wiesel is now questioning God because he is allowing all the horrible things to happen, and he is not coming down to help any of his people.

Wiesel was afraid to write it according to an interview with John S. Friedman, a reporter for the Paris Review. Friedman asked Wiesel why it took ten years until he wrote his novel Night. Wiesel states,” I didn’t want to use the wrong words. I was afraid that words might betray it. I waited. I’m still not sure that it was the wrong move, or the right move, that is, whether to choose language or silence” (1). In other words, Wiesel did not want write the wrong words because he was afraid that he would not be able to explain it well enough, so that the reader can feel how terrible it was to survive the holocaust and know the