“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. » -Elie Wiesel The above quote from Elie Wiesel is: At this time and shortly after, Jews were considered subhuman, then completely dehumanized. As World War II progressed, Hitler and his advisors realized that the only way to fully answer the Jewish question was to implement the Final Solution, which was to exterminate all of Europe's Jews. Some of these horrors of the Final Solution can be seen in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. In Night, Wiesel takes the reader into the eyes of young Eliezer during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel successfully executes his attempt not to let people born after the Holocaust and those who did not witness the atrocities of that period forget or try to claim the falsity of cruelty against Jews and other ethnic groups during this period. through his use of various symbols, his precise choice of words throughout the novel, and his tone of not just one victim, but 11 million. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses various symbols in a way to convey deeper meaning through common objects. Wiesel, for example, uses the symbol of fire to show the cruelty and power of the Nazis during the Holocaust. He begins to say this in section 2 when Madame Schachter imagines a fire in the cattle train en route to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This allows the reader to understand issues that will soon become relevant later in the novel. Wiesel also sees the symbol of a corpse when, in section 9, he looks in a mirror after being liberated from the concentration camps by the Allied forces, and in section 4, when Elie sees the young boy hanging from the gallows on Appelplatz. These two occurrences of the theme of corpses illustrate Elie Wiesel's use...... middle of paper ......when most people think about the nature and workings of the world, they believe that there is a higher being who controls everything. of this; However, Elie Wiesel challenges this notion by asserting that man is the master of nature and the world. The serious tone and distinctive choice of words throughout Night is what allows the reader to infer and analyze what Elie Wiesel might not have meant outright. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel shows the horrors and gives an eyewitness account of the gruesome and gritty. details that happened during the Holocaust through many different symbols, precise choice of words and through its tone. This allows anyone who reads Night to understand the extreme cruelty and harm done to Jews and many other ethnic groups during this period and ensure that nothing comparable to the Holocaust will ever happen again to them. future generations..