Flames

Night by Elie Wiesel is a book with a collection of his memories and his experiences in the several concentration camps he was in during the time of the Holocaust. This book is narrated by Eliezer who represents Wiesel. This work, in detail, talks about a few of the many experiences Wiesel went through, such as being forced to move out of his only home, being beaten and tortured by the leaders on the camps, and the death of his family. In 1986 Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for giving his powerful message to people all over.

“Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from the ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames” (Wiesel 32). This quote is from the book. The babies were burned to death because they would be a burden to the ones who would have to take care of them. They thought that it would be better to kill them than to do anything that kept them alive. This quote shows that there was no mercy, not even for the innocent. When I read this, I was angered because, as I stated, children are innocent. Those children did not deserve to be treated like unworthy animals. Eliezer even stated how he couldn’t understand how the world let them burn people alive. “How was it possible that men, women and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?”