Short Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Summary: Packed into cattle trains, the Jews are tortured in unbearable conditions. There is barley any air for them to breath, extreme heat, very little food or water, and they are all packed. It is almost as if they are in a survival mode. In their desperation, they lose their hope in the government and their hope in people. They stop denying what is in front of them and they begin to accept and understand what might actually happen. After days of the brutal conditions, the train arrives at the Czechoslovakian Border. They then realize that they are not being relocated. Soon a German officer opens the train and says if they don't hand over their valuables then they will be shot and if there are not 80 of them, then all will be killed. This was another realization of how this situation is really bad. Mrs. Schächter was a woman that constantly yelled, "Fire! I see flames!" After a while, men began to hit her against the head until she stopped yelling. Every one thought that she had gone mad. The Jews were saying that because it was a way for them to try and have optimism about the situation. When they said said that, it was a way of them to reassure each other. The train moved
Wiesel breaks conventions of traditional fiction writing in order to tell the truth about historical events. For example, at the beginning of this section, Elie's is separated from his mother and sister, whom he never sees again. Presumably, they both die in the Holocaust, just as Wiesel’s own mother and younger sister did. Remarkably, Elie's mother and sister are never mentioned again in Night. It is as if they simply disappear from Elie's mind and memory. Such a disappearance would probably not happen in a novel, since novels generally are careful about keeping track of all of their characters. Thus, the disappearance of these two characters is a powerful reminder of the necessarily fragmentary nature of memory and