Motifs
One motif that I recognized in the book Night was the train. The train appears several times in the story, at the beginning of the story the train transports all the Jews out of the burrows to Auschwitz. Nazi's would put 80 people in one train car to transport all of the Jews. Another time the train was a death trap to the Jews due to the fact that they transferred the Jews during winter in an open car. Most of the Jews died from hypothermia and some died because they suffocated from the living and dead Jews on top of them.
In the book Eli talks about how the bell runs his life in the internment camp and this is another motif I found in the reading. The bell tells Eli when to eat, when to go to his barracks, and it even wakes him up. The bell is at every internment camp that Eli goes to and becomes a major part of his time in the internment camps. Eli is relieved when he is in the hospital so he does not have to obey the bell.
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One of the major motifs in the book is the rations of bread, soup, and coffee that they ate and drank. They never received a lot of food while they were in the camp and a lot of them died from because they would be to weak to work and have to go the gas chambers.
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