ELIE WIESEL’S DANGLING CHILD: THE PROTAGONIST OF NIGHT
ELIE WIESEL’S DANGLING CHILD: THE PROTAGONIST OF NIGHT

Summary/Abstract: Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel is one of the most preeminent writers of both American and European literature. The author, who is raised in an Orthodox Jewish family living in Romania, struggles against the World War II and the Holocaust in his childhood. His work Night is an autobiographical novel concerning about the writer himself with his family in Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the worst and most catastrophic days of the Holocaust toward the end of the Second World War. Wiesel is intensely affected by genocides and war; he deals with the notion of God and the extinction of humanity. Furthermore, the protagonist survives in such terrible time that he experienced a moment to feel happiness for his father’s death. His point of view of his self and others has agony and confusion. This traumatic incidence creates traumatic personality. Wiesel’s Night encapsulates a Holocaust survivor’s traumatic memory and experience. Also, Wiesel quests the existential questions. In this study, traumatic effects of war and Holocaust in the eyes of a child in Night will be argued.

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