`Night,`, by Elie Wiesel

Running Head : Nights of Holocaust by Elie Wiesel

Nights of Holocaust by Elie Wiesel

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Nights of Holocaust by Elie Wiesel

It strikes me as an enigma why Anne Franks ' diary elicited more popularity as an account of the Nazi regime even from a distant perspective , in the sense that the diary 's entirety was of a life spent hidden from the atrocities , instead of Elie Wiesel 's Night , which was a haunting preview of the actual experiences that the Jews

had during the Holocaust . The book only gained recent fame as a literary canon , of true human experience perpetuated on because Oprah decided to include it in her book club , inciting millions of people to purchase the book that has long since been circulating the libraries and bookstores

Night - it was aptly titled , as it represented the robbing of the daylight from his boyhood , the closing of the curtains on his childhood napvety , of his innocence and belief in the goodness of man and of his God , the dark haunting of his entire life by a perpetual smoke from the crematories in which he witnessed his own mother and sister being led to their deaths . The light from his eyes - the windows to the soul - as mentioned in the first pages of the book , were extinguished in that moment of selection when he was forever torn apart from his family , left for a while with his father , whose own death came even before God dealt them the salvation he (before he lost his faith ) and his fellowmen had long been praying for

While reading through it , I was cringing inwardly at the mental picture of the sufferings that Wiesel had described without sentimentality which he himself had said to be due to numbness from the shock of everything : one moment , he was merely a boy of fifteen diligently studying his Talmud and expressing earnest curiosity and the desire to know about the Kabbalah , and the next a mere prisoner with a number for a name running for his life amid the winter snow

The book , even without the expression of the fear and suffering through the use of the most profound emotive words and phrases , is one of the most heart-wrenching novels of all time , most definitely surpassing Franks ' accounts of her lost loves and boredom in the room her family spent in while the rest of the Jewish community suffered unimaginable cruelty , inhumanity , and sheer evil . However , I myself could not cry as Wiesel had never once done because every atrocity was far removed from familiar reality . Besides the fact that it belonged to a time and place so distant so as to be irrelevant to daily experiences , the acts of cruelty seemed too impossible to imagine : how could man actually afford to kill another as easily as pulling a trigger because he stopped running to catch his breath , and with obvious pleasure ? How could anyone hit a fellowman...