In "Night" Elie has a hard time accepting God's silence. He can't keep his faith when he believes that God is all knowing and all seeing but isn't doing anything about the horrors of the Holocaust. The silence also represents the silence of the prisoners. No one did a lot to speak up or to rebel against what was happening. The monkeys speak no evil, see no evil, and hear no evil. They think that if they ignore the evil in the world then it will go away but this isn't the case. If the evil is ignored then it will just have a chance to grow and become more powerful. Elie said in an interview with Oprah that just because he went through the Holocaust it doesn't make him care less about the evil in the world it just makes him want to do more to stop it. He would be completely opposite of the monkeys.

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