night
Yet Elie Wiesel did survive, giving us a first-hand account of his experiences in his novella, Night. In this moving work, Wiesel employs both literal and figurative interpretations of the word "night," providing us with a deeper and more thorough understanding of his suffering. In the novel Night, Wiesel uses the word night in many contexts that are literal and figurative. The literal meanings play huge role in Wiesel's novel. In Night the word night is used to help the reader understand what is happenong in the novel. The word night gives the reader a sense of what is happening during certain events in the novel. "We could hear the wheels churning out that monoyonus rhtyhm of a trai traveling throygh the night"(20). Wiesel uses literal meanings to help the reader issustrate a picture of the atrocities of the holocaust. in the beginning of the book after the people of sieht are moved out of the ghetto they are taken and put on a train. "When had we left our houes?