Maltreatment Blooms on Silence
In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Jews were put into concentration camps. YoungThe young and healthy worked and maintained strongtheir strength to keep alive. Others old for exampleThe elderly, infirm and weak could not handle the harsh work, and the bad treatment, and were burned or beaten. Nevertheless, people letoutside of the camps allowed their silence to lead to each and every one of their deaths. Through the use of words and images that represent “Silence“silence,” Elie contributes to the idea that the worst sin one can commit, other than those who performedworked in the camps during the Holocaust itself, is the silence of those who saw the cruelty and never spoke a word.