Night Chapters 5-6 Prompt 10

Elie Wiesel's Night had several moving sections. For example, after the day of work on Rosh Hashanah Elie met up with his father and "took his hand and kissed it. [He] felt a tear on [his] hand. Whose was it? [Elie's]? His? [Elie] said nothing. Nor did he. Never before had we understood each other so clearly" (Wiesel 68). This shows how close Elie and his father were, they communicated without actually using spoken words. This displays how in life people can be so close they just understand each other without any explanations. Also, in some cases they know each other more than they know themselves. Furthermore, when his father had been called out and was giving Elie a few of his possessions, Elie said "Don't talk like that, Father. I don't want you to say such things. Keep the spoon and knife. You will need them as much as I. We'll see each other tonight, after work" (Wiesel 75). This shows how Elie didn't want to believe that his father was going to be executed even though it seemed like the only possibility at the moment. This expresses how sometimes people will refuse to believe something if it means losing their loved one, or something else that is difficult to accept. Night included numerous moving messages expressed through the characters. 

Night by Elie Wiesel had many powerful passages. For instance, when he was in the infirmary a fellow patient told Elie "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people" (Wiesel 81). This shows how even though the patient was a victim of Hitler, he was the only one he could trust to keep his promises, whether they were good or bad. This represents how people don't always have something to believe in, so they have to believe in a negative force in their life. In addition, when the prisoners were running all through the night "long since, [they] had exceeded the limits o fatigue. [Their] legs moved mechanically, in spite of [them], without [them]" (Weisel 87). This shows how they were running without actually willing their body to, it was as if they were doing it automatically, against their will. This displays how when people are so numb to a feeling, they almost don't realize they're actually doing it, but it just happens as if its not even them. Elie Wiesel expressed many moving messages in Night.