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THEMES AND SYMBOLS IN ELIE WIESEL’S

Explore the struggle to maintain faith in a merciful God, the theme of silence of God and victims, inhumanity towards others, and the importance of father-son bonds in Elie Wiesel's memoir. Symbols include fire representing the Nazis' cruel power and night symbolizing God's absence.

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THEMES AND SYMBOLS IN ELIE WIESEL’S

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  1. THEMES AND SYMBOLS IN ELIE WIESEL’S NIGHT

  2. THEME #1 • STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN A FAITH IN A MERCIFUL GOD • Hard to believe in a just God • __________________________________ • Wiesel struggles to believe in a just God throughout the book when he sees so much cruelty

  3. THEME # 2 • SILENCE • Of God and the victims • ___________________________________________ • Particularly the silence of God throughout the whole ordeal. • Also the silence of the victims and lack of resistance

  4. THEME # 3 • INHUMANITY TOWARDS OTHER HUMAN BEINGS • Of both Nazis and prisoners to each other • __________________________________ • Not only of the Nazis but the cruelty his fellow prisoners inflict upon each other

  5. THEME # 4 • THE IMPORTANCE OF FATHER-SON BONDS __________________________________ • The relationship between Elie and his father changes throughout the memoir.

  6. SYMBOL #1 • FIRE= Cruel power of Nazis

  7. SYMBOL #2 • NIGHT=absence of God __________________________________ • Darkness and Night symbolize a world without God’s presence

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