Preface of the book "night" by elie wiesel what is meant by "the valley of the shadow of death?

"The valley of the shadow of death" means the concentration camps or the place where the Jews were tortured and killed.

Explanation:

Elie Wiesel first wrote his "Night" about his personal experiences during the famous holocaust. When the Germans army under their dictator Hitler began ostracizing and hunting for any Jews in the country, Elie Weisel and his family were part of the Jews captured due to this order. Jews were thought to be the sworn enemies of the land and they should be removed from the face of the earth. So, Hitler began hunting for any Jewish people.

The preface of the memoir contains the lines "the valley of the shadow of death" which is also based on the biblical verse from Psalm 23. This verse from the Bible talks of the speaker's faith in God and how he will have no worry wherever he goes. The verse goes like this-

"even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil, for you are with me

your rod and your staff, they protect me".

This phrase means any obstacle that may come in the life of a Christian, in whose trust is God. So, God will always rescue them and not leave them alone.

Likewise, in the preface written by Robert McAfee Brown, the phrase is mentioned. But here, the phrase means the literal place of the concentration camps that serve as the homes of the captured and imprisoned Jews. This was the valley which everyone feared to go through or even be nearby.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!