Darkness And Faith In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The Light in the Dark How would you feel to experience your loved ones die in front of you and still find the strength to tell the story? Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night" is a terrifying recollection of his experiences during the Holocaust. The Holocaust still has a great impact on today’s community and its survivors. This shared history has encouraged a strong sense of empathy and solidarity among Jewish communities and other affected groups. Throughout the narrative, Wiesel utilizes several recurring motifs that not only illustrate the brutality of the Holocaust but also convey deeper, underlying messages about darkness and faith. The memoir can give us an insight into the true meaning of darkness. The memoir states "No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire that devoured us. …show more content…

In this quote, we can see how much death he has been surrounded by, the annihilation of his family and loved ones are so many, as big as the nightly sky and sadness all around him. This reveals the connotative meaning of the motif darkness in a way that Wiesel demonstrates the theme in this passage. We can see how the genocide among the Jews is spreading like a disease and having to witness their loved ones die as they look at the stars with “dead eyes”. Additionally, in the memoir, Wiesel presents another motif about faith. An illustration of faith in Wiesel’s life story, page 68, "My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man." Without love or mercy,. I had ceased to be anything but ashes, yet I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty". As the reader, you can feel the restlessness of internal conflict within him trying to maintain his faith in these horrific events. Wiesel, like so many others, have been stripped of their identities, tattooing numbers on them when captured in the

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