Symbolism In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The book “Night “written by Elie Wiesel is about the Holocaust and the Jewish people that were affected. The book has a lot of symbolism, the title “Night” is a symbol for how the main character was put through a never ending darkness and at the end morning came and he was freed. The story itself is dark because of all the deaths that happened at the camps, you might consider that it’s called “Night” because the main character is blind to the happenings outside the camps, therefore he has no sense of when all the darkness is going to end making it a never ending night. Elie stated, “Two entities- my body and me” (Wiesel, 2000 pg 63.). This could mean a number of things; it could mean his despair and his will to live or that his body was …show more content…
When dreaming, the night goes by very quickly, like in a blink of an eye and while this happens the brain disconnects from the body and becomes two entities; spirit and body. In another sense, he is having a nightmare because he is always wondering when it will end and if morning will ever come. On multiple occasions he wants to give up, but his dad encourages him not to give up. Givng up means leaving his dad behind; the only family he has left.
The faceless man says Hitler was the only person that he knows kept his promise towards the Jews (Wiesel, Night, 2000 pg 32.). I can infer that the faceless man had been promised something but never got that promise fulfilled. The faceless man symbolizes giving up since he knows that he can’t fight. He gave up some time ago because his heart is broken and sad. The red army is his salvation and the end to his suffering because he wants them to take away the night. All of this can go back to the title because it's the stages of night at dusk he is put into the camps, at the start of the night he realizes that help won’t be coming for a long time, at midnight he wants to give up, almost to dawn he adapts and wants to live because he wants to be there for his father, at dawn they are