About Normal In The Book Night Analysis

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The poem “About Normal”, by Mattie Stepanek, and the book Night, by Elie Wiesel bear the same theme of quickly adapting to a new normal throughout both pieces of writing. For example, In the Book Night, Elie claims that “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip.” (Wiesel 57). Elie quickly adapted to the ruthless treatment that the Nazis held towards the jews, and because of that, it helped him get through the concentration camps. Furthermore, in the poem, Mattie Stepanek wrote “I don’t know what Normal is anymore. That’s because Normal has been changing.”(Lines 2-3 Mattie). Just like Elie, the person singing the poem wants normal to be righteousness, but realises that it won’t always be and quickly adapts to whatever normal