Elie Wiesel's Night paints a harrowing picture of the Holocaust's effect on a young man. Yet at the beginning of the novel, all is well in Elie's life despite the war taking place all around him. He and the other Jewish residents of Sighet have high spirits at the beginning of the memoir.
The first reason has to do Sighet being located in Hungary. Until mid-1944, Hungarian Jews were not deported to German concentration camps....
Elie Wiesel's Night paints a harrowing picture of the Holocaust's effect on a young man. Yet at the beginning of the novel, all is well in Elie's life despite the war taking place all around him. He and the other Jewish residents of Sighet have high spirits at the beginning of the memoir.
The first reason has to do Sighet being located in Hungary. Until mid-1944, Hungarian Jews were not deported to German concentration camps. Elie and his family, listening to foreign radio stations, feel overjoyed at the progress the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are making against Nazi Germany. They are hopeful that the war will be over before Hitler can do anything to them.
The second reason is that Elie, along with the majority of Jewish people in Sighet, do not believe the rumors of the Holocaust. Even the horrific story told by Moishe the Beadle doesn't change their minds. They brush off his ramblings as madness. For them, it is impossible that such a genocide could occur in the 20th century.
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