Question

In narration, the reader may learn a great deal about the narrator based on the details and observations he or she makes about other character in the novel. what do we learn about wiesel based on his interactions with moshe the beadle

Answer 1

Moishe the Beadle is the first character we meet in Night. In a way, he is a character who determines and marks Eliezer's life - first, by teaching him the mystic Kabbalah (which his father disapproves of); second, by warning the local Jews of the extermination that awaits them by the Nazi regime. Therefore, Moishe is an epitome of Wiesel's main idea: that people should never ignore oppression, or try to stay neutral towards it. Moishe speaks, but people hardly believe him, if at all. He is a kind of a prophet, who foresees the future (based on his own experience), but it is all in vain, because people are prone to turn a blind eye until it gets too late.