Loss Of Innocence In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

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I support the generalization of Night that the major theme of the novel is the boy’s loss of innocence in a world he thought good, and loss of faith in a God he thought just. Eliezer’s novel, Night, was about him and his family being forced to move into small ghettos within Sighet. It was also about what he experience and had to go through during these unfortunate events. They weren’t the only ones that were forced out. All of the other Jews of Eliezer’s town were forced out, too. Eliezer deeply believed in God, considering the fact that he would pray for almost everything. He studied the Torah and the Cabbala.
If he and his family had believed the things Moshe tried to inform them about, then they could have escaped and even warned the others beforehand. Moshe the Beadle, Eliezer’s teacher, warned them about the Nazis. The reason about how he knows is because he was deported before the rest of the Jews in Sighet. He soon escaped when he found out that the Nazis took the other Jews that were with him to the woods and slaughtered them. No one believed him, not even Eliezer, because everyone thought he was off his wankers. In the end, Moshe ran off to god knows where.
After the Nazis had occupied
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He thought that they were going to cut of his foot, but they just took out whatever was inside his foot. He also thought that being in medicare would for sure get him out of the selections, but his doctor told him that being there wasn’t any better. In fact, if you were there, they’d just wipe you out anyway. When the camp was being evacuated again because of the Russians getting closer, Eliezer was afraid to be separated from his father. He got out of bed and ran out into the cold on an injured foot. He soon caught up with his father and kept running and running. They ran for a long time. If they stopped or were slower than others, then they were either trampled on or shot down