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Night
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })On April 11, 1945, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated, and among the freed inmates was a young man named Elie Wiesel. He had lost his father, his mother, and one of his sisters. For a decade, he worked as a journalist and refused to even discuss The Holocaust. In 1954, he poured his experiences into a Yiddish book titled And the World Remained Silent, with its original manuscript running almost 900 pages longnote it received quite some compression into just 245 pages. However, the public was generally apathetic to it.Then in 1955, he interviewed the Christian (and Christ-obsessed) novelist Francois Mauriac, with the results described in the page quote, and with Mauriac's help he published a greatly abridged edition in France, then America, calling it La Nuit (Night). The book's story centres around a man named Eliezer and his father Shlomo, and their experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The book has been translated into over 30 languages and is considered to be a quintessential work of Holocaust literature.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Night is also notable in that it's not really a novel, or a memoir, or an autobiography, or a nonfiction story, being somewhat loosely based on Wiesel's experiences. There's still lots of debate over how much of this book is factual, and for that reason, scholars still have trouble trying to approach it as a straightforward account.Wiesel published two follow ups to the book: Dawn in 1961 and Day in 1962. These installments are more allegorical than autobiographical, but nonetheless continue Wiesel's examination of his thoughts and experiences as a Holocaust survivor in the years after the genocide's end. | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: As Disproportionate Retribution for discovering an affair between an SS and a young Polish girl. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Shlomo dies after receiving one from an SS officer. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Starting in the very first chapter, we hear of babies being used as target practice for the SS soldiers. Then we see children being shot, thrown into fire-pits, hanged... | |
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Oppose What You Suffered | |
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Oppose What You Suffered: Applies to the author. Elie Wiesel, a survivor of The Holocaust, spent his life after the Holocaust as an advocate against genocide. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: A grim (and literal) example in the ending when Eliezer looks in a mirror and sees himself for the first time since the Jewish ghettos, and realizes how much the camps have done to him. | |
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The Can Kicked Him | |
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The Can Kicked Him: It's heavily implied that Zalman, a young Pole appearing near the end of the story, is trampled to death whilst attempting to relieve himself in the snow during the long run from Buna to Gleiwitz. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Shifts very, very much towards the "bitter" side. Buchenwald is liberated and Eliezer survives, although not without extreme loss and most specifically (and recently) at the cost of his father's life. But at the very end, when Eliezer stares in a mirror, he realizes how much the experience has dehumanized him despite the liberation. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: See Idiosyncratic Episode Naming below. | |
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Doorstopper | |
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Doorstopper: When Elie wrote his Yiddish book And the World Remained Silent, the manuscript was over 800 pages long. However, it was reduced to 245 pages. Inverted by Night itself, considering it isn't even 150 pages long. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Poor Mrs. Schachter. | |
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Death March | |
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Death March: The Buna concentration camp is evacuated due to the approach of the Red Army, and the inmates are forced to walk more than 50 miles to a train hub at Gleiwitz for transport to Buchenwald. | |
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Author Avatar | |
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Author Avatar: Eliezer, if you don't already believe he and the author are the same people. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Eliezer considers it; and even after he backs out, he considers himself dead anyway. | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: Josef Mengele plays himself up like this. Subverted, given that he was Josef Mengele and had a reason for being so outwardly nice to the children. | |
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Les Collaborateurs | |
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Les Collaborateurs: The majority of the cruelty depicted on-page doesn't come from the SS, but from Kapos, prisoners who became slave-drivers in exchange for better treatment. Elie seems to remember their brutality more vividly than the actual German instigators of his suffering, who, for the most part, are more distant. | |
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No One Gets Left Behind | |
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No One Gets Left Behind: Subverted. During the march from Birkenau to Auschwitz anyone who moves too slowly is shot. Rabbi Eliahou can no longer manage to run, and loses his son in the crowd, but is determined to find him. Eliezer declines to tell him that said son abandoned him after seeing him limping, and prays to God for the spiritual strength never to abandon his own father. He doesn't get it, and is ultimately too cowardly to help the dying Shlomo. | |
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Potty Failure | |
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Potty Failure: One person who dies says they can't hold on any longer as they are trying to undo their pants to poop. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: A powerful and well-deserved one at that. | |
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That Man Is Dead | |
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That Man Is Dead: Eliezer, after seeing children thrown into a firepit, states: "The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me." | |
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Anaphora | |
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Anaphora | |
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Due to the Dead | |
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Due to the Dead: Shlomo recites the Kaddish for those who die. Even Eliezer himself. | |
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Based on a True Story | |
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Based on a True Story: It's not entirely clear how much of the book is based on actual events. Wiesel himself said that "Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred," and he tended to get offended when people call it fiction. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming / Theme Naming: Though they're far lesser-known than this book, Wiesel wrote two fictional follow-ups to his memoir, both exploring the plight of Holocaust survivors and their efforts to reconcile with the past. The first was called Dawn, and the second was called Day. Together with Night, they form a trilogy. Elie had said that this represented his state of mind during and following the Holocaust, and how everything ends up coming right back to night.note This also ties into the Jewish tradition that new days begin at nightfall. | |
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Rage Against the Heavens | |
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Rage Against the Heavens: Eliezer comes to hate God for allowing the Holocaust. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Tragic in his case. | |
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Word of God | |
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Elie had said that this represented his state of mind during and following the Holocaust, and how everything ends up coming right back to night.note This also ties into the Jewish tradition that new days begin at nightfall. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Moshe, who can't prove his citizenship, is the first to be hauled off in a cattle train, but manages to escape. No one listens to his warnings. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Eliezer embodies both the good and bad sides of this trope, surviving no matter what he has to do and who he has to abandon. | |
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Flash Forward | |
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Flash Forward: Eliezer relates that he was beaten by a man called Idek in a fit of rage and afterwards a young French girl helped patch him up. He then relates that years later he met that same woman in the underground. | |
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