Two Common Themes In Night By Elie Wiesel

In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when he saw the terrible horrors of the concentration camp “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.” (Wiesel 6). Moishe had explained to the people of Sighet the horrors of the concentration camps and what they did there. What the men in the concentration camps did was terribly horrific. Wiesel didn’t have much to say about Moishe’s statements and proclaims, in the end he saw at first hand what other horrors Moishe did not see. Two significant themes related to inhumanity discussed in the book Night by Elie Wiesel are becoming closer to loved ones and losing faith in God.

One theme in Night is that inhumanity can cause becoming closer to loved ones. In fact, after hearing the camp was being evacuated, he ran with an injured, looking for his father. Without any shoes and an injured foot Wiesel made an effort, not wanting to be separated from his father. “As for me, I was thinking about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. We had suffered to much,
It was New Year's Eve, every Jew gathered around the Appelplatz to bless God for the year to come,” Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled.” (Wiesel 67). Wiesel explaining he did not want to bless God, for him it was something he could no longer do. The horrors of the camp had broken down the strong relationship Wiesel once had with God. Indeed, in time of such distress, they celebrated for the New Year’s, Wiesel did as well meanwhile he accused God,” I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament… I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone in a world without God…” (Wiesel 68). When everyone was blessing for the New Year’s, Wiesel felt as if he no longer needed God to help him in this horrific journey. Therefore, the imagery of the camp caused Wiesel to give up on