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"Delusion and misconception flourish everywhere. More than ever men seem to be slaves to a word, a motto, to kill one another with, to silence one another in the most literal sense. The world is filled with hate and misunderstanding." Wiesel's brilliant style of writing Night is what makes the book so incredibly effective to the reader. It is the most personal account of the most personal subject in recent history. Wiesel calls the book a "deposition." It cannot be classified as a memoir because technically he didn't write the book with him as the narrator. However, Wiesel has confirmed that with the exception of a few details, it was his personal account of his experiences during the holocaust. These personal accounts such as Wiesel's are some of the most important pieces of literature in twentieth century history and particularly important to the history of western civilization. Night is a book that opens our eye to the fact that at as few as 60 years ago, in an age which was one would consider the world and especially Europe civilized, the largest genocide known to man was taking place. Not only this, but the rest of the world knew exactly what was going on inside these concentration camps a
The old men and invalids would be kept occupied in the fields"(24). For instance, towards the end of the book the remaining victims were packed into open-air cattle cars and when an SS guard throws a bit of bread into the car. Wiesel opens the reader's eyes not to the event that was the Holocaust but to the emotions that he felt and nothing tells a better story. With the absence of God, it seems evident that Wiesel is trying to tell us that the Nazis were trying to fill the roll God. The variance of all the characters within the different groups shows that the people dying and the people killing were human beings. Wiesel's purpose of writing this book seems to be to sensitize us to the natural cruelties of men. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. The absolute humanity of his story in contrast with the loss of humanity in the Holocaust is heart breaking to say the least. In the break he describes a woman in Yemen who is throwing coins to the native boys. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
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