“For the dead and the living we must bear witness.” -Elie WieselThe above quote from Elie Wiesel is During this period and soon after, Jews were seen as subhuman and later completely dehumanized. As World War II progressed, Hitler and his advisors saw that the only way to fully respond to the Jewish question was to implement the Final Solution, which was to exterminate all Jews in Europe. Some of these horrors of the Final Solution can be seen in Elie Wiesel's novel Night. In Night, Wiesel takes the reader into the eyes of young Eliezer during the Holocaust. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel successfully completes his attempt to prevent people born after the Holocaust and those who did not witness the atrocities of this period from forgetting or trying to claim the falsity of cruelty towards Jews and of other ethnic groups during this period. through the use of various symbols, the precise choice of words throughout the novel, and its tone of not just one victim, but 11 million. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses various symbols in order to convey deeper meaning through common objects. Wiesel, for example, conveys the symbol of fire to show the cruelty and power of the Nazis during the Holocaust. He begins to say this in section 2 when Madame Schachter imagines a fire in the cattle train on the way to Auschwitz-Birkenau. This allows the reader to understand issues that will soon become relevant later in the novel. Furthermore, Wiesel sees the symbol of a corpse when in Section 9 he looks in the mirror after being liberated from the concentration camps by Allied forces, and in Section 4, when Elie sees the boy hanging from the gallows in the Appelplatz. These two occurrences of the corpse theme show the use... of Elie Wiesel's medium of paper... when most people think about nature and how the world works, they believe that there is a higher being who controls everything. of this; however, Elie Wiesel disputes this notion by stating that man is the master of nature and the world. The serious tone and distinct word choice throughout Night are what allows the reader to infer and analyze what Elie Wiesel might not have wanted to state outright. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel shows the horrors and provides an eyewitness account of the gruesome and graphic situations. details that happened during the Holocaust through many different symbols, the precise choice of words and its tone. This allows anyone who reads The Night to understand the extreme cruelty and harm towards Jews and many other ethnic groups during this time period and to ensure that nothing like the Holocaust never happens again for future generations..