Elie Wiesel Preface To Night

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Elie Wiesel used his preface to Night to illustrate the difficulty of conveying his ordeal in words. He had such trouble writing about his experiences because there isn’t no words to describe the horror experienced in the camp. Only if you lived it or were there to see the tragic events you would understand the pain and thoughts going through Elie Wiesel's mind. Elie Wiesel witnessed what humanity was cable of, the killing of millions of innocent people. The horror of the camp was unreal and not a reality to him.“The discovery of the reality inside the barbed wire...the infants thrown into fiery ditches… I did not say that they were dead, but that was what I thought” he explains the “reality” of being there, not have the words to describe the