There are multiple themes present in Elie Wiesel's book "Night" including the struggle for Eliezer to keep his faith in a kind God, the inhumane treatment of humans by humans and the silence found in the lack of response from the victims in the concentration camps and the lack of God's response to t

Elie Wisel wrote the book "Night" as a memoir of his experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust. He calls himself a "messenger of the dead among the living" through his literary witness. "Night" chronicles the Holocaust and serves as the springboard for all of Wiesel's compositions.

Elie Wiesel called his autobiographical book “Night” because the title conveys the deep darkness – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual – that permeated his experience in the death camps of Nazi Germany. As a child Wiesel and his father were imprisoned in the Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald conc

"Night" by Elie Wiesel is about a man named Eliezer and his experiences during the Holocaust. This story is similar to a memoir since Wiesel uses the character of Eliezer as a representative for himself in many ways.

While Elie Wiesel likely never elaborated explicitly on his choice of the title for "Night," it's responsible to conclude that he selected it for its extraordinary symbolic power. The theme of entering darkness operates metaphorically on many levels throughout the book in Wiesel's physical and psych

Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night" uses literary devices involving figurative language, such as similes, as well as devices involving alterations in sentence structure, using balanced sentences and periodic sentences to alter the rhythm of the text. These devices connect points in the story to important t

Elie Wiesel's older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice, survived their internment at the Auschwitz concentration camp, met Wiesel after the camps were liberated and eventually immigrated to North America. Wiesel's younger sister, Tzipora, died in Auschwitz.

In Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night," his father, Shlomo, appears as a mostly static character. Through the story, the reader sees Shlomo's slow and steady decline from a community leader to a man who died of dysentery in the concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel actually has two, not one, surviving family members from the Holocaust. Both of his older sisters. Hilda and Bea Wiesel survived the death camps, although they were separated from Elie during and after the war. The rest of their family perished.

Moshe the Beadle, in the story called "Night," is Elie Wiesel's spiritual adviser in his Jewish faith. Despite the fact that Moshe disappears after the first few pages of the book, the ideas he teaches Elie resonate throughout the rest of the story and throughout Elie's life.