Why Wiesel wrote Night was to inform the readers and people around the world about his horrific experience in the blocks, and what he had to go through with his father during the Holocaust, which is a terrible time period where the Jews and other people were convicted for their practice of religion, which is prejudice, and where many deaths occured within these innocent people in the concentration camps. For example, in the memoir “Night” on lines 6-12, it states, “I was no longer in the same block as my father. They had transferred me to another Kommando, the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone….The head of my new block was a German Jew, small with piercing eyes. That evening he announced to us that henceforth no one was allowed to leave the block after the evening soup….began to circulate soon thereafter: selection.” As you can see, the author was separated from his…show more content… An example of this is when I went to a restaurant to eat breakfast, we were told to wait. We waited, and then another family different from our race was quickly called to a table, not being told to wait. This surprised us because we didn’t know why we had to wait if there was an open table already before the other family came. This relates to the memoir “Night” because the prisoners of the block would be judged if they would be able to continue living to work for the camp as slaves. On lines 63-68, it states, “Tibi was silent and very pale. All the block inmates stood naked between the rows of bunks. This must be how one stands for the Last Judgement….Three SS officers surrounded the notorious Dr. Mengele, the very same who had received us in Birkenau.” This demonstrates that the author was judged along with the other prisoners based on their strength and agility. They were put in the concentration camps because of
