Although many people, when they look back at the Holocaust, immediately think of the Nazis terrorizing the Jews, what some people don't understand is that there may have been other factors that influenced this atrocity, which stripped the Jews of their basic human needs, their families and their faith. Several survivors say these very things when asked about their time during the Holocaust, but many never actually talk about the perceived atmosphere. However, one survivor focuses on this very fact. Written by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, Night chronicles the time from before the concentration camps to the moment he was liberated by the Americans. This memoir, which is depressing at best and disheartening at worst, may not seem particularly exciting to read, but it certainly won't be forgotten anytime soon. This fact can be supported by the title of the book itself, Night. Even before reading, night implies darkness, hatred, and doom, as well as other negative ideas associated with smoking. I will never forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw transform into wreaths of smoke under a silent blue sky. I will never forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. I will never forget that nocturnal silence that deprived me, for eternity, of the will to live. […] I will never forget these things, even if I were condemned to live as long as God himself. Never. (Wiesel 32) What this quote describes is a notable decrease in Wiesel's loss of hope, as well as the most traumatizing event he has ever had to experience. By repeating the word "never," he uses the powerful effect of repetition to drive home his point: that from now on things would only go downhill, so far that it seemed as if he had touched the very periphery of