Theme Of Silence In Night By Elie Wiesel

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Jews are being killed by Nazi German Officers, in the 1940s. Silence is represented throughout the memoir in several different aspects of the book. Most Jews begin to lose faith in God due to the atrocities during this time. Elie Wiesel uses motifs to reveal the struggles Jews had to face on a daily basis for several years. Silence is a theme shown in this memoir through losing hope in survival, questioning God’s existence, and through Juliek’s beautiful music.
The uncertainty of life during the horrible times of the holocaust is shown through silence. The people are quiet due to their lives being at risk. As they continue their march to the pit to go to their barracks, many people show they are frightened because they don’t know
Music, like some things, can take your mind off of the horrible events that are occurring in your life. Elie is always silent about the fact of Hitler killing people, but never has he been silent for something good like Juliek playing music and breaking through the darkness of night. “He was playing a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Never before had I hear such a beautiful sound. In such silence.” (95) Juliek demonstrates that there are good factors to silence such as the courageous music played by him. Not everything represented with silence is an indicator of bad as Juliek clearly shows. In conclusion, silence in this book is represented several times in a negative way, but it also has a representation of something good like Juliek playing music on the violin.
In this memoir the motif of silence is represented though several different aspects, including struggling with the desire to live, losing trust in God and rebelling against him, and Juliek playing the violin. Jews are suffering and at risk of dying during the holocaust. They are losing the will to live and they feel