Night By Eli Wiesel: Literary Analysis

Mankind has evolved from the era of cavemen, through centuries humans have developed new technology to the point that mankind has been on the moon. Historical evidence further proves that mankind has evolved through time with many hardships, from the time era of the great depression in the United States to the infamous jewish holocaust in Germany. There is a great line that differentiates the selection of the truth and the fabricated truth. Although the facts are what make humankind notorious for striving forward, fiction plays a role of capturing the real emotions of mankind. Fiction is what makes the reader actually comprehend the emotions and discrimination felt during the world’s most darkest journeys. Through many works of literature

Eli Wiesel, the author of the memoir Night, truly makes the reader comprehend what it was like to a jew during the time of hitler’s dictatorship. Of course there are facts on how the jewish holocaust begun, but through fiction the reader is able to feel the emotions felt by young Eli Wiesel as he recalls his memories in hitler’s concentration camps. Eli recalls the tortures of starvation, dehydration, countless beatings, gas chambers, crematoriums and so much more. There is something that the truth does not capture and that is emotion, through fiction the reader is able to feel what Eli felt being a jewish teen during the holocaust. Fiction allows for the reader to understand human experience and that life does go on as Eli survives hitler’s concentration camps without his father, without a God he once worshiped to, but he survives a hell like experience which is felt by all through

There is a limit on what history can contribute to the reader, although it may enlighten them on the truth, there is no emotional depth when reading facts of human experience. Fiction helps the reader almost feel as if the reader was apart of the lesson being taught. Through various works of literature, like the memoir Night, Eli’s experience helps the reader feel sympathy for the tragedies of the holocaust. Fiction is a filler for the things history does not capture, like the life lessons of human experience. This is greatly portrayed in multiple works of literature like Fences and Things They Carried, as important themes are made for the reader to comprehend the themes that can be applicable to life. Some of those themes include the consequences that come from making certain choices, and the emotions of post traumatic stress after war. Not only is fiction entertaining, but it captures settings in works of literature so that the entertainment is greatly understood. In Of Mice and Men, the time frame of the great depression is greatly captured to exemplify the plot of the book to give the reader a sense of what it was like to be living in that time era. Fiction gives an overall sense of what it is like to live, by falling and rising again, giving a genuine human experience, that historic facts imply cannot