Night --> Theme

One night can be the ending of so many things, and the beginning of so much more.


Throughout the story Elie constantly refers back to the word "night" right before he is to describe another horrid thing that occured in these camps. Not to mention that "Night" has to have some significance if Elie choose that for the title of his first book. Night is repetitive to display the presence of night, the darkness, the eerie feeling, the animals and insects that come out. The terrifying screams of the night, those who go missing in the night, those who never awake after one night, the resting of the sun and people while others are busy at work trying to kill. Night can be referenced to almost anything related to the Holocaust. The word night is rarely ever analyzed, and I believe that if we did so, we would find that so many of the things we used to describe it, are similar to those of the horrors of this genocide.