Authors devote considerable time to generating appropriate titles. The Holy Scriptures commence with our Creator's molding of the universe and the Earth. In these ordained beginnings, Earth was "Without form, and void; and darkness is upon the face of the deep" (Genesis 1:2, King James Version). God then creates light, expelling this darkness. Therefore, darkness and night symbolize a world without God's presence in Elie Wiesel's novel "Night".
             In the novel, it was always night when suffering was the worst. Eliezer notes that "night fell" when his father learned of the deportation of the Jews. It is night when Eliezer arrives at Auschwitz. The camp was moved at night so the prisoners wouldn't know their exact location. When the prisoners initiate their heinous run from Buna, everything is "pitch darkness". The tone of the book is dark, with the Jewish community living in a continuous night. In a world without God.
             This is Eliezer's belief. He discards his religion because of absolute evil. His blind faith could not save him from the events that transpired in "night". Spawning from this collapse of God is the genocide of millions at the hands of the Nazis. When Eliezer witnesses this horror first hand, his blind faith is hastily abolished. He is left empty, with only bitterness, question and doubt to fill the void. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned
             into a wreath of smoke beneath a silent blue sky." Eliezer fights an internal conflict with his religion. Eliezer analyzes his religion. When Eliezer witnesses the vehement end of "angel", his maturing philosophy of existentialism emerges. He looses sight of the Jewish Faith and plunges into darkness. NIght falls, and Eliezer i
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