Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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To you and me night is a time of rest, a time of safety, and a time to put all our troubles behind us, for Elie night was feared, his troubles would follow him even through the night. The book night was written by Elie Wiesel in 1956 and is about the hardships that the Jews had to face. What is so significant about night? Why is the book called night? Night and darkness symbolize a world without god’s presence and for elie night, was very dark. The novel night is almost unbearably painful, and certainly beyond criticism, where each night means survival, the one last night, and the memory of night. Night means that there will be a new day, and a new day day means survival, a new day in which there’s new opportunities. The book says “ Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us.” (pg 21) Each night means that there will be another day, another day in which you don’t know what it will bring. The Jews didn’t know what would happen to them, they didn’t know what path their lives were going to take, and they didn’t know what their future held. Each night meant survival, however what the jews realized is that no matter when it happens there’s always going to

The book quotes “The last night in Bun. Once more the last. The last night at home, the last night in the ghetto, the last night in the cattle car, and, now, the last night in Buna. How much longer would our lives be lived from one last night.” (pg 83) The Jews were stripped of all rights, they were known by numbers not names, they weren’t treated as bad people but as if they weren’t people at all. One thing the Jews were allowed to keep was, hope, hope of a better future of a better life of a time of peace. Lives are lived from night to night, day to day, and from memory to