In the 1940s, something as horrific as the Holocaust was unimaginable, unheard of, and unnoticed. How could anyone believe that humans can kill other humans for no reason; that they would be tortured, subjected to forced labor to death, or burned alive? It was unthinkable. How can we explain that terrible event so that history does not repeat itself? To believe this story, it takes more than a simple statement. It takes more than someone saying it happened for the message to get through. To fully understand the severity of something like the Holocaust, the reader must be transported to the concentration camps. They must feel the pain, the suffering necessary to survive and the absolute fear. Only then can the human race prevent another Holocaust from occurring. Elie Wiesel does this by choosing powerful words and capturing the reader's attention with wild, ferocious symbolism and imagery that instantly transports the reader to an unimaginable, unheard, and unnoticed place. Throughout the book, Wiesel uses his diction to refer to the concentration camps only as a fantasy or a nightmare. In this way, it shows how unreal and incredible the whole situation was simply by choosing these specific words to describe the camps. The reader gets a sense of how implausible and surprising the Holocaust was. Wiesel explains how he doesn't even want to believe it's real when he writes, "Surely it was a dream" (37) and "A nightmare, perhaps" (33). He doesn't understand how someone could do such a thing to an entire race for no reason, so he simply dismisses it as a nightmare, a dream from which he will be free. The overwhelming message here is that it's not just a dream, it happened and how incredible this idea is. Wiesel continues this…half of the paper…is his message because it shows what it looked, smelled, and sounded like throughout the novel and made it seem like the reader was part of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel didn't just tell his story, he brought everyone who read it into his experience and made them feel the terror and fear that he felt. To explain this story is to explain a nightmare, an unimaginable story of innocent people dying for no reason. Wiesel used his experience to send a message to humans around the world that this cannot be overlooked, that the Holocaust actually happened, and that everyone must try to prevent it from happening again. He does this through harrowing imagery and diction as he symbolizes what the Holocaust was to him by using the word “night.” In this way, the reader is transported to the Holocaust and experiences a dark, terrifying and enlightening experience that he will not soon forget..