Suffering is inevitable. People are inherently evil, and in a world full of these sinful beings, it's impossible to live a picture perfect life free of suffering. Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to display the unavoidable nature of pain and suffering.

Symbolism was used throughout the novella to prove that suffering is inevitable. Elie's suffering starts to intensify once he reaches the concentration camp, and his suffering Is accompanied with a change in character; after a single night in the camp, Elie claims that his old, religious self "had been consumed by the flames," (Wiesel 37) which was likely to happen to him at some point with him being a victim of the holocaust. After the dentist's office was shut down, elie was glad that his gold crown was safe; he begins to think about what he could do with it, like buy food one say, and he describes his desire for food, specifically bread, as "all that mattered to [him]," (Wiesel 52) which shows …show more content…
When Elie's father first gets sick, he decides to give up to the point where to the point where "[Elie] was no longer arguing with him! but with death itself," (Wiesel 105) which display the theme because humans are mortal, and death be avoided. When the sickness that possessed Elie's father starts to make him go insane, the parent-child roles switch on them, and Elie's father becomes "like a child," (Wiesel 109) which proves the theme because having to care for a sick parent as if they were a child can be hard on anyone, but it's bound to happen a some point in life. At one point, people ware throwing bits of bread to the prisoners to entertain themselves, but because the prisoners are being stripped of their human needs, "an extraordinary vitality [possesses] them," (Wiesel 101) which illustrates the theme because of course a person will become animalistic if you starve them enough, and sanity can't be