Essay Archive - Elie's Wiesel and Night
Elie's Wiesel and Night
Do you see that chimney over there? See it? Do you see those flames? Over there-
that's where you're going to be taken. That's your grave, over there. Haven't
you realize it yet? You dumb bastards, don't you understand anything? You're
going to be burned. Frizzed away. Turned into ashes.
Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. It is the
autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie
Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and with his battle with God for a
way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnessed each day.
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