How does a title of a book be significant to a book itself??

Question

Like i have to do something about this book called Night by Elie Wiesel, so how is the title of that book, Night, signicant or important to the story?

Answer 1

i also havent read it for years, but i think it is a more metaphoric title, like the time of day representing the state of people's (his own, jews', humanity's) lives. he also has books called "dawn" and "day" so its kind of like the time standing in for the feelings. since night is about the holocaust, its a very dark period for him, and for the world. i read dawn a long time ago as well, and i remember it being about a prisoner of war, but it was more hopeful though i remember the ending being tragic, and i never read day but id think it would be a much lighter book, or at least more hopeful. so yeah, in short, id say the title of night references the darkness of the time and human suffering.

Answer 2

The Book you make reference to is significant of the title. In "Night" during this time of history many a Jewish person was executed.

Night begins in 1941, when, the narrator of the story, Elie, is twelve years old. Having grown up in a little town called Sighet in Transylvania, Elie is a studious, deeply religious boy with a loving family consisting of his parents and three sisters. One day, Moshe the Beadle, a Jew from Sighet, deported in 1942, with whom Elie had once studied the cabbala, comes back and warns the town of the impending dangers of the German army. No one listens and years pass by. But by 1944, Germans are already in the town of Sighet and they set up ghettos for the Jews. After a while, the Germans begin the deportation of the Jews to the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Answer 3

It's been a really long time since I've read Night, so I'm not going to assume things I don't remember... but since you just read it, do any of the extremely important events in the book happen at night? like when he arrives at the concentration camp, when the prisoners are being moved/rescued? It could also just be metaphoric...