Night analysis section 3

 Quote #1

  "'Father,' I said 'if that is so, I don't want to wait here. I'm going to run to the electric wire. That would be better than slow agony in the flames.'" (Wiesel 42)

Wiesel tells his father that instead of dying in the crematorium he would rather kill himself. When Wiesel says this, it gives you a feeling of what the Jews were going through. Wiesel had only been in the camp for minutes and he already was debating how he was going to die.

Quote #2

  " 'There is a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall see the day of liberation. Have faith in life...Drive out despair and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity....That's all. You can go to bed...Good night.' The first human words" (Wiesel 50)

The words of the man in charge of Wiesels block, shows you that not eveyone was evil in the camp. From the moment that the Jews arrived in camp they had been shouted at and had guns pointed at them, stalking their every move. When Wiesel tells us that the words of the block officer were the first human words, it says to the reader how roughly Jews were treated at the camps and how little the officers cared about the them. It also shows how much the Jews valued the kind, simple words of a human.