Misery-----Night by Elie Wiesel

Misery The autobiographical novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, describes his horrifying experiences and his physical and mental misery throughout the true event of the Holocaust. The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word “misery” as prolonged or extreme suffering. This word fits this horrible tale of murder and inhumanity to man perfectly. Elie suffers physical misery by starvation and certain types of tortures. Prior to his placement into the concentration camps, Elie always had food to …

…such terrible deaths. Night tells the story of how innocent victim’s lives became destroyed as a resultant of their beliefs and/or religions. These people had done nothing and yet were tortured, degraded, and liquidated for no reason other than they were Jews. Wiesel is a witness to all the horrible tortures that occurred. Wiesel’s suffered through the death of his family, the death of his childhood, and the death of his God.