Ferocious Fear In Eliezer Wiesel's Night

Ferocious Fear Faster, the men ran, faster, are they men anymore, faster, went the running skeletons trying to survive the freezing night. Night is a heart-wrenching nonfiction story by Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who decided to share his story and that of other millions, for everyone to learn and read of. Eliezer was a young man when his entire town was taken into a dehumanizing captivity by opposing German forces, forced around the entire expanse of a European country to five different locations. Always running because “a slave runs,” Eliezer Wiesel survived through the horrific, treacherous actions of a different type of mankind for him and his father. Eliezer Wiesel is afraid of death which is demonstrated in forms of dehumanization …show more content…
For example, “For a long time this argument went on. I felt that I was not arguing with him, but with death itself, with the death that he had already chosen” (Wiesel 77). Eliezer talks and writes with sentence structure including many pauses to show his state of nonchalance and desperateness; he’s creating emotion as he’s recalling the time leading up to his father’s end. Eliezer is literally arguing with his father but he figuratively feels as if he’s arguing with death itself, he’s at this point in time sure this will be the end of his father’s journey. Eliezer’s distinct and stunning relationship with his father begins to lose its strength which is portraying a theme, the more Chlomo gives up and takes death upon himself the more he’s letting go of Eliezer, and with Chlomo giving up on himself Eliezer begins to do likewise, and it’s at this time Eliezer approaches a shaming point in which he sees this moment as a chance to be free of the weight of his father. Ultimately, no longer is Eliezer afraid of death for himself, but now he fears the life of his father to a greater