Say More With Less: Night, By Eliezer Wiesel

Say More with Less “Night” by Eliezer Wiesel is a powerful novel, yet it received backlash for not going into detail about the Jew’s horrific experiences while at concentration camps. Critics say that the material could have been even more graphic than it already was in order to display the true horrors the Jews experienced. Because he chose to relay his experiences in an understated manner, Wiesel is actually showing his readers just how gut wrenching that event really was. When a person experiences a tragedy, the last thing they want to do is revisit it. Therefore, when Wiesel writes, he does it not from the perspective of someone viewing it full on, but rather in short glimpses. For example, he does not say that he sees one of the SS officers