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Atonment And Love In Elie Wiesel's Night

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My themes in the book Night are imprisonment and love. The definition of imprisonment is the state of being imprisoned. The definition of love is an intense feeling of deep affection for someone or something. They are used in the book a lot and they are great themes to lash out to the reader to make them interested in reading more of the book. There is a lot of imprisonment, because they are mainly in a concentration camp. There are a lot of love between Ellie and his father. A example of love in this book is Ellie's friends help everyone and Meir Katz saves Ellie from getting strangled.
There is a lot of imprisonment in this book. First the get put in ghettos, then on a back of a car. Then they get put into camp after camp block after block. …show more content…
He slowly crawled to the soup to be undetected. He gets to the cauldrons and slowly lifts up his head and screams and he gets shot on the spot for disrespecting what the SS soldiers told them not to do what was not to leave your block during the bombing. A quote from for imprisonment is “when they were in the cattle wagon Mrs. Schachter kept yelling fire! Fire! Please beg mercy on me!” (2.24) My abstract theme is love. There is a lot of examples of love in this book. I will give you about 5 examples of love in this book. One example of love is that Ellie will give everything just to be even near his father. He gave portions of soup and bread just to sit and go everywhere his father goes. Another example is when Eilles father is sick, he will do everything in his power to save him. He brought him to a surgeon and got yelled at. He brought him water whenever his father asked him to bring him some. He tried to save his father and failed. Another example of love in the book Night is at the beginning they hope that they all stay together and live through this. After the book night he finds his sister and the sister tells them that his other sister and mother died. There is a long quote from the beginning of the book about when this

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