Night

In Night, Madame Schachter's visions and cries of fire and flames initially create fear and panic among the passengers. As her outbursts continue, they lead to frustration and violence as others try...

At the start of chapter 2 in Night, the train conditions were appalling. Eighty Jewish prisoners were crammed into each cattle car with no room to lie down, leading to aching muscles and difficulty...

In "Night," the train carrying Elie Wiesel and other Jewish prisoners stops at Birkenau, part of the Auschwitz concentration camp. As they arrive, they witness flames rising from a chimney and smell...

In "Night," Madame Schachter's mental state is ambiguous, as she is perceived both as a madwoman and a prophet. Initially, she is described as a strong but quiet woman who loses her mind after being...

In Night, the trains transported Elie Wiesel and other Jewish prisoners primarily to Auschwitz, a notorious Nazi concentration and extermination camp. From there, they were later moved to other...

The literary device exemplified when Madame Schachter's hallucinations come true is foreshadowing. Her repeated cries about seeing fire, initially dismissed as madness, predict the horrific reality...

In their final months, Wiesel and his fellow prisoners undergo profound physical and emotional changes. Initially, they struggle to adapt, maintaining some familial bonds and spiritual reflections....

Wiesel includes Madame Schächter in his memoir as a symbolic harbinger of the horrors to come. Her hysterical visions of fire foreshadow the tragic fate awaiting the Jews in the concentration camps....

In Chapter 2, the passengers on the train quiet Madame Schachter, who is hallucinating and repeatedly screaming about fire, by initially trying to reason with her. When this fails, they resort to...

In "Night," Mrs. Schächter is made to stop yelling by being bound, gagged, and beaten by fellow prisoners. Initially, she is hallucinating and screaming about seeing fire, which unnerves the others...

Elie's language changes from positive to negative when the prisoners are transported from Buna to Buchenwald.

In Chapter 2 of Night, the Jews, including Elie Wiesel and his family, are forcibly moved into cattle cars without knowing their destination. Initially, some hold hope that they are being relocated...

In "Night," Elie Wiesel recounts the harrowing experiences of the Jews of Sighet during WWII. Initially feeling safe, they soon face expulsion, with Moshe the Beadle returning to warn them of the...