27/2022: Night With A New Preface By The Author Elie Wiesel
Section 1: In 1941, Eliezer, the narrator, is a 12-year-old boy living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law. A series of increasingly oppressive measures are forced on the Jews. Eventually, the Jews are confined to small ghettos behind barbed-wire fences. Analysis Section 1: In the first section, he laments the typical human inability to acknowledge the depth of human cruelty. The Jews of Sighet are unable or unwilling to believe in the horrors of Hitler's death camps. Moishe the Beadle is perhaps the most painful example of the Jews' refusal to believe evil exists. Night chronicles Eliezer's loss of innocence, his confrontation with evil, and his questioning of God's existence. In writing this memoir and his other works, Wiesel is attempting to complete his father's story, honour the memory of the Holocaust victims, and commemorate the traditions they left behind. Sin...