Night Final
Published on Apr 21, 2016
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"If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate."
Hate is what fueled the crimes of the Holocaust outlined in Elie Wiesel's book, Night... and hate is what killed over 3000 people on September 11, 2001.
In the book Night, the message is to "Never Forget". This is the message Elie is trying to make because he constantly uses the phrases "Never will I forget" and "I remember". Elie states, "Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair". He means that we must remember the worst of the past to have a chance at a better future.
In Night, Elie says, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”, the meaning he is trying to convey when he says this, is that if someone has forgotten such a tragedy, it would have been the same as killing them a second time.
Elie uses repetition to show his message of "Never Forget." "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget" (Wiesel 34). This citation shows how the events of Elie's experience will never be forgotten and never should.
the chimneys that Elie sees while he is at Auschwitz, is something he continues to mention throughout the book. He sees the chimneys as a symbol of death, corpses and fire. " The word chimney wasn't an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. It was, perhaps, the only word that had real meaning in this place...". It means that Elie must remember the horrors of the "chimney" to be frightened, to stay alive.
The attacks of September 11, 2001, was a series of four attacks by the Islamic terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. The attack was made by hijacked commercial planes used as missiles targeting the New York's World Trade Center and other areas in the United States. It lasted for less than 2 hours and took the lives of over 6000 in total.
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