Perspective Of Night In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Elie Wiesel’s perspective of night in chapter two of Night reflects his feelings toward the Nazis and the sorrow of leaving his home and community. He felt no comfort from the beautiful starry night, but rather, compared betrayal to the stars “which devoured us”(Wiesel 30). This is how Wiesel felt toward the Nazis for destroying his last bit of hope for this happy life he had planned out for himself. Elie now felt lost and hopeless, unsure of the fate that he, his family, and his Jewish community would be given. When he looked at the night sky, he thought “should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes” (Wiesel 30), comparing those stars to the Jews who were trapped with him in the hands

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