The Mystery Of Truth In Elie Wiesel's Night

The memoir Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is true story of his personal experience in the Holocaust. This book is a true miracle to have been written considering the absolute horror he had to go through. The title Night is symbolic to his experience, and the terror that all the Jews had faced. They had suffered through unthinkable torture and emotional devastation. Elie Wiesel shared his first hand experiences, allowing the reader to fully realize the terror these men, women, and children had gone through. The memoir Night, has a title symbolic to the story through what is a dream vs. reality and the mystery of the dark hiding the truth of what is happening.

During the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel had suffered through unthinkable horrors only

thought to be possible in a nightmare. This idea of what is real or just a dream had settled upon Elie through his journey wishing he could just wake up and it would all be over, back with his mothers and sister who he had been separated from, back to his father, and back to his studies at home with his family and friends. His life was completely torn apart, only to survive and be left alone, an orphan. For all this to happen, millions of Jews starved and slaughtered, forced to work and kill their own kind being brought to the same level as filthy animals while receiving no help, how can this be real it must be a dream. These thoughts raced through Elie's mind as he struggled for a reason to fight for his life when it would be so much easier just to lie down and die. Elie writes, “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live." (Wiesel). One of the hardest battles faced was fighting for a reason stay alive, maybe if they lasted down and gave up they would wake up from this terrible nightmare. Elie Wiesel also writes, "They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions." (Wiesel).
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"Night" representing dreaming is only one of many symbolic representations of the title.

Another way the title is symbolic is how the darkness hid the truth.

One of the most baffling things that Adolf Hitter had accomplished was his ability to hide the truth. He fooled a nation with lies, hiding his darkness from the world. His ability to give hope and comfort and give them what they think they wanted then leading them to their own deaths without ever even fighting back is mind blowing. Elie had been a victim of Hitler's trickery. An example of this is when they were leaving the ghettos they had a chance to escape but decided it would be better to obey not knowing they were falling into his trap. Elie also describes his time in the concentration camp where sirens would go off and everyone would be forced indoors so that the rest of the world would not be able to see their skinny and frail starving bodies forced into hard labor. They were hidden from the rest of the world, hidden in the darkness. When they had first arrived in the camp there was a man screaming with anger, he screamed, “ 'You should have hanged yourselves rather than come here. Didn’t you know what was in store for you here in Auschwitz? You didn’t know? In 1944?' " True. We didn’t know. Nobody had told us.”(Wiesel). They had no idea what they were walking into, they followed a lie and walked to their own grave. Hitler fooled a nation with lies and killed millions of Jews in result, but no lie lasts

forever.
The Holocaust is an absolute tragedy that should never occur again.

The Bible says, "He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son"(Colossians 1:13). Religion was a big part of Elie Wiesel's life and he had lost his faith in his God. Being put through that was the ultimate test of faith as they all asked the same question, "God how can you let this happen?". They were filled with anger and many of the Jewish let go

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of their faith. For those who made it out and survived the unthinkable, gave thanks to God for pulling them out of that darkness. The title Night is very symbolic, to dreaming and hiding the truth. Elie Wiesel impacted the world with this eye opening memoir for all to gain a respect for the history so that it may never be repeated

again.