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Night (21)

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This shows how people are worried for what is to come. It seemed as if everybody wanted the night to take as long as possible, as if to keep them safe from what could happen in the day.

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These suggest that the day might be a time of danger, when they are transported or things happen to them because of the Nazis.

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This helps the reader to understand the fear that everybody in the story was feeling.

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The words could change to mean, or represent, different things. It is still early in the book so it is harder to tell what symbols mean.

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Day (12)

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" A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets" (Wiesel 12).

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This word is being used in this moment to show just how nice life was before these horrible events occurred.

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Night is clearly a story about the holocaust, and knowing this suggests these words are like the calm before the storm.

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This impacts the reader because it shows that the Germans changed and ruined genuinely nice and peaceful lives, giving us an added layer of sadness.

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As the story unfolds you see why he wanted us to know how nice life was before its events, he wants us to know just what was being broken.

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"Night. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly," (Wiesel 21).

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"At daybreak, the gloom had lifted. The mood was more confident" (Wiesel 21).

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Day (21)

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Despite the chaos in the world around them, the Jews were able to maintain a positive attitude.

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The daytime was a time of peace and happiness amongst the Jewish people.

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The optimism and courage of the Jews, as shown in the passage, may inspire the reader to act similarly in dangerous situations.

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Through the many tragic and horrifying moments of despair, the Jews were able to remain hopeful.

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Night (22)

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"I spent that night going over memories and ideas and was unable to fall asleep" (Wiesel 22).

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Wiesel might use this to symbolize the longing of the night and the emptiness that is attempted to fill along with it.

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These words could suggest that this was the beginning, the strange feeling that keeps people up the night before an event.

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The short vague but blunt description of the night Wiesel is experiencing allows the reader to connect to his experiences and empathize with the writers experiences.

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In the camps that they are soon headed towards they will face hard exhausting days, although they might continue to feel like inside of them this emptiness grows, it could be hard for them to stay awake at night, their nights of peaceful memories and bliss they won't even have anymore.

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Night (21-22)

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"The night before, we had sat down to the traditional Friday night meal...We sensed that we were gathered around the familial table for the last time"(Wiesel 21-22).

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Wiesel uses the word 'night' to symbolize the end of the Jews' old lives, just as night signifies the end of a day.

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In the early pages of the book, these words suggest an end to the Jews' old lives because it is their last night before they are relocated to a new place to live.

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It is a very relatable event, throughout history as well as in readers' lives, which creates feelings of sympathy and understanding for the Jews.

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It is not necessarily meant just as an end to their old lives, but also life itself. The trauma and horrific events they will experience in the concentration camps will lead to not only the death of innumerable Jews but also the end of their soul and will to live.

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Night (21)

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"No one was praying for the night to pass quickly" (Wiesel 21).

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In this moment the night could be their escape to their problems because all the problems would begin in the day.

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These words suggested that the night was a time where everyone was back at their house and they wanted it to last a while because they knew in the day they would have to start moving.

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It can help the reader understand how worried people were and how scared they were to not knowing where they are going to go.

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As the story goes on the night becomes less and less of an escape from the problems once they are al in the truck and the women starts screaming during the night.

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Night (21)

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"The night before, we had sat down to the traditional Friday night meal" (Wiesel 21).

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He uses the night to symbolize the last piece of familiarity they will experience for a long time for when the sun rises a new day will arrive that holds nothing but uncertainty.

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These words suggest that this will be the last time they'll experience something familiar and peaceful for a while.

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It gives the reader an idea on how sudden and abrupt these events happened and how much they disrupted ordinary life.

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Night(21)

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Night (25)

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"There was nothing. Only the darkness of night" (Wiesel 25).

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Wiesel uses the night to symbolize the lack of hope as the Jews are on a train headed for the concentration camps. It tells them that their God who is all compassionate and all loving has abandoned them at that moment, so he might do it again.

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These words suggest that there is no hope from God to save them from this mess, and that they are alone.

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This tells the reader that there will not be any divine intervention, and that these people were trapped in a hopeless situation.

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As the story unfolds, the optimistic people from the little town in Sighet would see the world through a different lens, and that there is no  comfort in the night, a reminder of God's abandonment to them.

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Night (21)

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"No one was praying for the night to pass quickly." (21).

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Night (7)

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Night (13).

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"Day after day, night after night, he went from one Jewish house to the next, telling his story" (7)

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Wiesel uses the night as this moment of "the calm before the storm." None of the Jews wanted the night to pass because this was a time of sleep and a time of escape. They were fearful of what should come next, and they felt safer in the night.

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"It was close to midnight... 'The news is terrible,' he said at last. And then one word: 'transports' (Wiesel 13).

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Night is used here to explain the disbelief of Moishe's story. It shows the days and nights passing, and how as each day passes his story continues to lose what it needed to warn the people of Sighet.

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Wiesel might use night as a time where bad things are coming, but not yet. The moment is non-violent but the world is still dark.

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This suggests a loss of hope, a warning to reader and characters alike that we know wont be followed.

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This passage suggests that there are dreaded days ahead and the Jews only solace is the time they can spend sleeping, further suggesting feelings of abandonment.

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For me it hurt, because we know what the story is going to be (mostly) about, and so hearing that they had a chance makes it worse.

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As the story unfolds, the longing for the night to stay likely begins to increase as the suffrage increases.

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This allows the readers to better understand the mental, emotional and physical trauma that the Holocaust caused, and helps us takes steps towards better understanding the real effects of the Holocaust.

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In later chapters what Moishe warned happens, and so his warnings lose the craziness that surrounded them and sink in for face value. The warning becomes real for the people who are warned.

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Night (21).

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The yellow star shows that the Jews are getting selected to be killed.

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In the early pages of the book, these words suggest that bad things are coming. Things will go poorly in the morning with transports but also in the days ahead (less immediate future). Night is filled with fear and anxious anticipation for the horrors to come.

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The quote and the fearful mood that night sets allows readers to imagine how the villagers feel. Meaning, the readers can feel the uncertainty for the future in the brief moment of peace that night provides.

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At the beginning the night shows familiarity but as the story unfolds brings nothing but uncertainty.

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Gabriel Murphy-Wheeler

“The night before, we had sat down to the traditional Friday night meal. We had said the customary blessings over the bread and the wine and swallowed the food in silence”(Wiesel 21-22).

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This excerpt was used by Elie Wiesel to symbolize calm before the storm in a sense of having a “last supper” before being taken to the concentration camps.

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Night (22)

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These words in the early pages show how night can be before the struggle. Such as when the characters are calm at night, then things go very badly as soon as morning comes

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Nights meaning changes as the story comes along as it goes between calm before the storm and chaos. This quote depicts it as calm before the storm.

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"I spent that night going over memories and ideas and was unable to fall asleep. At dawn, we were in the street, ready to leave. "

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The impact that this excerpt has on the reader, is that it causes the reader to feel differently about night baby day and how this was Wiesel’s last real meal before going into the concentration camps.

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Wiesel used the night as a time to represent a period of time when people were silently suffering and recalling their past memories.

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It suggested that night was a period of time when people escaped from the reality and relive their enjoyable moments from the past.

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This has an emotional impact on the reader because it was Night was the only time when they could temporarily escape from all the horrible things they were going through and enjoy their past.

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Day (21)

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"SATURDAY, the day of rest, was the day chosen for our expulsion" (Wiesel 21).

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Wiesel uses the word day as a symbol to show that it was always in the day they suffered with the treatment of Nazis and Hungarian officials. It was in the daytime that they would advance on their to the concentration camps.

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They suggest the fact it's in the daytime that all the major problems occur in which they can't escape from.

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The reader is able to make connections with the book and allow the book to have a major impact on them. The impact causes the reader to analyze the experience of the author and see the way things moved throughout different times of the day.

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The meaning of day can change and unfold even more as the story goes along. It's still early to say how it changes using DQ because this is just the beginning.

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Day (12)

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"A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets" (Wiesel 12).

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The way this word might be used as a symbol in this moment is how it's all meant to be bright and show that the people and everyone is happy

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These words suggest in the early pages of the book that life is nice and calm before everything goes downhill.

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The impact it has on the readers is that it is giving the readers a sense for what life was like before, during, and after the horrid event known as the holocaust.

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Night (24-25)

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"On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: 'Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!' There was a moment of panic. Who had screamed? It was Mrs. Schächter" (Wiesel 24-25).

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Wiesel is using this word as a symbol because, at this moment, Mrs. Schächter is screaming in the cattle car at night about one of her hallucinations or imaginations; this moment is horrifying.

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The word "night" suggests that people are anxious and that things are both tense and negative. However, when the sun rises, people felt more calm and optimistic.

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Wiesel's symbolism of "night" impacts the readers mood, making it feel more uncertain and negative at night. The imagery about night that Wiesel writes about is very powerful.

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So far, I think that the intensity of the negativeness and feelings that are occurring at night are increasing as the story unfolds. It progresses, at the end of chapter 2, to where they saw a fire and smelled burning flesh at midnight. At first, night is mostly uncertain negative feelings, but then it becomes more about the events that are occurring.

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Night (12)

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"A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets... Night fell... Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman, entered and took my father aside" (Wiesel 12).

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Wiesel uses "night" in this page to show drama and fear. This contrasts with his use of "day" above signifying joy and harmony between the people.

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More than anything, night is used earlier in the book to symbolize stress whether in the form of fear, pain or tension.