Write An Essay On The Book Night

We have all heard of the age old saying, “There are only two types of people that exist in a time or war and crisis, those who survive and those who die.” Night is just an example of this that we see down on paper. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. It is a true story about events that happened in his life. The intentions of this book was not to make the reader feel good. The author was not writing a story for a family to sit down, drink some coffee and read together to enjoy a good book. He is expressing his experiences and what he felt by writing it down. He shows us what he felt thought the story. The story contains many elements of recession like the death of innocent people and of his family members, shows the limits and boundaries humans will go to survive and the absolute evil of man.
There are many themes jumping around in Night. One of the themes is how important family is. “Men to the left! Women to the right!" (Chapter 3, pg. 27). Those eight simple words stuck in Elies head for a while. He did not know that at this point he would never see his sister or mother again. Many of their goals was to try and stay with their family as long as possible. Some of the prisoners only survived as long as they did because of the thoughts of knowing their family is safe. The next theme that I can see in night is Violence. Violence plays a major role in night as it is the bases of control. The Germans use violence to force the Jews into the camps and control them. The prisoners use violence to maintain their control and survive. We can see that the only effective way in this time to get what they wanted is to use violence. The last major theme that I see in Night is race. The whole reasoning behind what the Germans did to the jews was their race. They had no sympathy for the jews which gives us, the reader, to feel bad for the jews and everything they had to go