Night Final Exercise

Write 2 thesis statements for which you could write well-supported literary analysis essays. Remember when analyzing the literature we are always trying to determine the meaning of the literature. It is not a summary or you repeating what is already known. So in the thesis you need to tell us something that you can prove through evidence from the book. You need to write two thesis statements based off these literary elements:

Theme: The book "Night" by Elie Wiesel portrays that when people are presented with the constant threat of death, they lose their morals and their ability of being a decent human being. 

• “Once again, the young men bound and gagged her. When they actually struck her, people shouted their approval.” (pg. 26)

• “The three veterans, with needles inter hands, engraved a number on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (pg. 39)

• “I heard the pounding of my heart. The thousands of people who died daily in Auschwitz and Birkenau, in the crematoria, no longer troubled me.” (pg. 62)

• “One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest. In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling each other.” (pg. 100-101)

Character: The inhumane acts of the Holocaust caused many people to lose their basic human qualities,  but in the book "Night", Elie Wiesel shows that hope and compassion will eventually get one through even the most seemingly hopeless of situations that life may present. 

• - “Don’t lose hope… Have faith in life, a thousand times fate… Help each other. That is the only way to survive.” (pg. 41)
• - “‘Don’t be afraid,’ he said. ‘Everything will be alright.’... Every one of his words was healing and every glance of his carried a message of hope.” (pg. 79)

- "My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done." (pg 87) 
- "I tightened my grip on my father's hand. The old, familiar fear: not to lose him"