Nigth

Night is a powerfully written story of a concentration camp survivor. Elie Wiesel deals with his loss of faith during the holocaust, and mentions the horrors of the concentration camps. He shows how such a life affected the people in the camps, how it changed many of them into something less than human. This paper will address some of the important scenes in Night.
Moshe the Beadle is a poor Jew from Sighet who teaches Jewish religion to Elie. Moshe is deported before the rest of the Jews in Sighet, and escapes to tell the Jews in Sighet what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. Unfortunately, people think that he’s crazy. Later on in the story the Nazis who capture Sighet are deporting Elie and his family and several other people. One of them that’s important is Madame Schachter because of her foreshadowing of the flames.
Madame Schachter is a middle aged Jewish woman from Sighet who is deported with her ten-year-old son in the same train as Elie. On the third night, she begins t...