Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

The victims of the Holocaust, as told by Elie Wiesel in his novel, Night, suffered a loss of indentify and struggled to maintain their humanity. After the Jews got evacuated from their ghettos, the German put them into the cattle trains and moved them to the concentration camp. While in the train, the Jews are tormented by the unbearable conditions, where there was no air to breath, no room to sit, everyone was hungry and thirsty and they began to lose their sense of public decorum. Some flirted openly, while others pretended not to notice. After several days, they arrived at the Czechoslovakian border. The German took over the train, threatened to shoot any Jew who disobeys or tries to escape. As the victims and victimizers are captivated

Elie realized his feet were running on their own, and the only thing he could do to protect himself was hide behind everyone else. It wasn’t easy for Elie to doubt God, but then, "For the first time, I felt revolt rise up in me. Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible, was silent. What had I to thank Him for?" (Wiesel 31). Elie tried to hold onto his faith, but as his freedom are deliberately stolen, his faith in God seems to be lessen day after day. Because he used to be a religious, losing his faith changes his indentity. In fact, before Elie's father die, he witnessed the Nazis abuse his father, though he did not react, he felt angry and had desire to defend his father. Rabbi Eliahou, a kind old man, who got abandoned by his own son because it seemed like he would not survive. Elie prayed that he will never do what the son did to his father. As the journey continued, Elie's father was weakened day by day, and part of Elie thought that he will be better off his father. Elie's father had dysentry which made him terribly thristy, but extremely dangerous to drink water in that