Who was Moshe the Beadle? What made Eliezer (Elie) want him to become his mentor? What did he witness while in Poland that no one took his word for?
The first pages of "Night" talk about Moshe the Beadle. His answers to the questions asked by Wiesel, to me, sound like those of a philosopher. In my opinion, Wiesel wanted to have Moshe as a mentor because if his generosity and knowledge of the cabbala.
*On pages 50-51 in chapter 4, Elie meets a "French" girl that works along side him at the Buna concentration camp. After he was severely beaten by Idek (part of the Kapo), the girl comforted him by putting her hand on his bleeding forehead and spoke to him in an almost motherly manner. Elie met the girl many years later. At first, she did not recognize him, but then Elie refreshed her memory. They were reminiscing at a cafe' when the girl admitted that she was actually Jewish and lied during the occupation. She would later escape the concentration camps. She told Elie that she knew he wouldn't "give her away". This is something i found really interesting.
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