Posted by liz on January 09, 19102 at 16:14:23:

In Reply to: Re: Info on Night by Elie Wiesel posted by Moh B on January 06, 19102 at 17:40:34:

: : i have to write a report dealing with
: : conflict about the book Night by Elie Wiesel.
: : Please give some info. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
: Why has Wiesel entitled his book Night?

The site www.pinkmonkey.com has a lot of info about Night...here's something from the site about the title:

Wiesel's experiences during the holocaust, one of the darkest periods in human history, are like a journey into a night of total blackness. During his stay in the various concentration camps,
Wiesel witnesses and endures the worst kind of man's inhumanity to his fellow men, as prisoners are beaten, d, starved, and murdered. Darkness and evil reigned. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, he condemned the silence and apathy of those who did not cry out and condemn the criminal atrocities of Hitler and his dark forces.

As a symbol, night does not merely represent physical darkness; it also stands for the darkness of the soul. It was obvious that the
s were dark and evil; but Wiesel also felt that his heart was darkened by the evil around him. In the book, he says about himself, "There remained only a shape that looked like man. A
dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it." Obviously, throughout the holocaust, Wiesel was living through a long "night" of terror and , where he could see no light at the end of the tunnel, only perpetual darkness.

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