Analysis Of Elie Wiesel's Night

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Elie Wiesel’s main motivation for writing his best-selling novel Night was to ensure that people would never forget what happened during the Holocaust. Wiesel also states that his primary purpose is to “recount what happened to the dead and sharing what they cannot”. Even though Wiesel had tried to describe the events as accurately as possible, he still feared that his novel would not be received well by the public since they could not fully understand what had happened and what the millions of Jews had experienced. His fears are understandable, since for many years after the war the general public wasn't fully aware of the extremities of the Holocaust, so a novel such as Night would be even more shocking and controversial then than it is now.