Night

Background Info

• "Night" is based on the accounts of teenage Elie Wiesel during the Holocaust.
• Elie is a Jew who studies Kabbalah.
• He goes into a concentration camp in the year 1944.

Symbols

WHAT DOES "NIGHT" SYMBOLIZE?

• Night symbolizes the unknowing, the darkness, and the grimness in survival of life. Night is something you have to get over- like an obstacle.
• In the text, Elie is always trying to keep himself and his father alive- he is always aspiring for more food, more water, and more rest.
• In other words, life is mysterious, dark, and hard- just like the night.

Morning symbolizes a new start, hope.

Night symbolizes the opposite.

how does this relate?

• Elie is constantly trying to survive with his father on rations and work.
• Elie is constantly trying to increase his faith in his God.
• Elie is constantly trying to stay alive and away from the Nazis.
• Therefore, the symbolization of "night" shows us how the character struggles to achieve his goals in the story.

Stern Am Nacht

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