Night

Night is the account of Elie Wiesel living in numerous concentration camps during Adolf's Hitler totalitarian rule of Nazi Germany. It explains the inner horror of these camps and the Nazis who served there. Through his tale, we learn of true hatred, evil and suffering.

“Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets.”

Right from the beginning of his horrifying tale of suffering, Elie Wiesel describes the death camps and the killings of countless innocents. As a reader, you gather a lot from this small paragraph in Night, portraying the cruelty of the Nazis and the reality of the concentration camps. It is hard to visualize and comprehend how something so atrocious and inexplicably evil could ever have happened. Thousands upon thousands of Jews were marked and labeled as unequal. Their fate was to be sent to a place where Satan himself resides: a place of death, murder, and malice.

This, as well as other disturbing passages, is a common theme in Wiesel’s account of pain and suffering. A young Wiesel even begins to question whether God exists and how human beings are capable of such acts. I believe however, that one of Wiesel’s ultimate morals will be of perseverance and strength through faith. The other shall state why we should never let this sort of terror happen again. It has however. Multiple occasions. There have been quite a number of holocausts. Darfur, Rwanda, Uganda, Burma. How can something so evil and wicked take place? Is it human nature? We will never no the question.