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Night

by Elie Wiesel

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Plot

Auschwitz
Birkenau
Boxcar Journey
Buchenwald
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Death March
Deportation
Evacuation of Buna
Ghettos
Gleiwitz
Liberation
Reason for Not Moving to Palestine
Section 3

Characters

Elie Wiesel
Eliezer
Elie's Father
Moshe the Beadle
Madame Schachter
Moishe the Beadle
Eliezer's Father
Mrs. Schachter
Zalman
Akiba Drumer
Idek
French Woman
Juliek
Martha

Themes

Survival
Faith
Dehumanization
Suffering
Holocaust
Hope
Denial
Resistance
Evil
Identity
Humanity
Death
Loss of Faith

Quotes

Men to the Left! Women to the Right!
... a Corpse Gazed Back at Me. the Look in His Eyes, as They Stared Into Mine, Has Never Left Me.

Symbolism

Night
Fire
Kaddish
Bread
Knife and Spoon
Violin

Literary Devices

Foreshadowing
Irony
Imagery
Simile
Allusion
Metaphor
Symbolism

Setting

Sighet
Concentration Camps
Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Birkenau
Buna

Historical Context

Holocaust
World War II

Authorship

Elie Wiesel

Narrative Perspective

First Person