Answer to essay on night A truism is an accepted truth about life in general. Something so simple that there is no reason to argue about it. Many of these truths were written by great people. An example of this is Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a child during the Holocaust and in his book The Night Elie Wiesel recounts the horrors he experienced during his childhood. One truism that I think Elie Wiesel would agree with is that “touching a sore renews the pain.” Elie Wiesel lost his childhood when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Soon his village was transformed into one of hundreds of other ghettos. These served as temporary prisons before the Jews were transferred to their final destination; the extermination camps. The best known One of these children beat his father because he did not make the bed correctly. But a Dutchman's servant was not like that at all. He was loved by all and “had the face of a sad angel” (Wiesel 42). However, when the power plant where the boy worked exploded, he was tortured for information. But the child refused to speak and was therefore sentenced to death by hanging. Years later, in an interview, Elie Wiesel recounted what he was forced to witness that day. As he told Bob Costas, "I remember it well, I remember it now. I have not forgotten a single moment, a single episode."(Wiesel 87). The death of not only this child but thousands of others took a toll on Elie Wiesel. As he stated in his interview, "When I see a child, I go to pieces. Any child."(WieselWhen finally given a chance to rest, the prisoners collapsed on top of each other. Some were dead and the rest were barely alive. cling to life. It is here that Elie Wiesel found himself buried under the corpses, surrounded by both the living and the dead, although there was not much difference between them. Here Elie Wiesel met an old friend named Juliek THE violin beautifully, and on that dark night he gave his last concert when he played a fragment of Beethoven's concerto for an audience of corpses Elie Wiesel wrote in his book: "Even today, every time I listen to Beethoven I close my eyes and out of the darkness emerges the sad and sad face. pale of my Polish friend, as he greeted an audience of dying people with his violin."( Wiesel 64). When Elie Wiesel woke up in the morning he found his friend. Juliek's body was dead and next to him was his violin destroyed. Years later, when asked about Juliek, Elie Wiesel revealed: "You know, I used to play the violin. I played well. And for that reason I haven't touched the violin since." (Wiesel