Fredrich Nietzsche once said: "Be careful when you fight monsters, lest you become one." This means that if a person is not careful, the evils they fight against could be exactly what that person becomes. This statement is valid and holds true both in life and in literature. Night by Elie Wiesel supports the idea of ​​not fighting like the enemy. Wiesel uses setting and characterization to develop his story and get this point across. Elie Wiesel uses the setting to develop his story. The night takes place in different places between the ghettos and the various concentration camps. The year is 1944 when the story begins and Eliezer Wiesel lives in the small town of Sighet in Hungarian Transylvania. Not long after the story begins, the Jews of the city of Elie are forced to live in small ghettos within Sighet. Shortly after their lives return to normal, they are all herded into cattle cars and begin their journey to Birkenau, the gateway to Auschwitz. Inside this camp, as horrific acts unfold, Elie begins to question his faith even more than before. Many prisoners were primarily concerned with their own survival, sliding into cruelty. After months in the camp, the Jews are evacuated when the Russians begin to advance. They participated in a death march, running more than fifty miles before finally arriving at the Gleiwitz concentration camp. Upon arrival they are immediately loaded back onto the cattle cars to go to Buchenwald. The surviving Jews, including Eliezer, are finally freed on April 11, 1945. Moshe the Beadle was described and characterized more thoroughly earlier in the book. Moshe the Beadle was Elie's mentor in learning Kabbalah. Elie described him as physically awkward, shy and... half of paper... and dies. Throughout the book, Chlomo remains a static character, a man who depends on his son's support. Chlomo is a constant presence in the novel due to his importance to Elie. It is the center of Elie's fight for survival. Although readers cannot hear Chlomo's thoughts or feelings, we can see that Elie is constantly thinking about him or worrying about him. All around he sees other prisoners slipping into selfishness and cruelty, but Elie's relationship with his father reminds him of the outside world and life outside the Holocaust. The characterization and setting contribute to Fredrich Nietzeche's statement: "Be careful when you fight monsters, lest you become one. Elie Wiesel's memoir Night helps demonstrate the validation of this statement. The quote says not to fight like the enemy otherwise someone could end up like the enemy himself.