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Summary: An Epic Story
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel is a great autobiography. It all starts in the small Jewish town of Sighet in Translyvania. Then moves to Auschwitz and then he gets moved to Buchenwald, both are concentration camps. This all takes place in World War Two. It starts with a very religious boy who begins to losing faith in his God once he sees the pain God is putting his people through. He talks about life talks about his life before the concentration camps, in the Ghetto, and waiting for deportation. He watched everyone he loved and cared for fade away. Wiesel writes with great description and imagery. He really captures the light of life in the gloomy devastating concentration camps. You grow so close to all the characters in the book and he really helps you under stand the lives and thoughts of everyone. The two main characters, Elie and his father, aren't too close in the beginning of the book but as time goes on they grow very close but yet quite distant because they no longer feel emotion for one another. I'm a freshman in High School and I loved this book. It's probably meant for teens and younger adults, but I think everyone should deal with this subject eventually. It really makes you think how lucky you are to not have to go through anything close to that. I'd have to say this is a must-read book for everyone.
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: Night is a book that really needs no review on how great it is. I have read the book several times over to fully understand what the author is trying to explain to the reader.
This book stars off with a boy (Elie) who wants to learn more about his religion, which is, of course, Judaism. He wants to study and find out a much as he can. He lives in a house with a mother, father and, sister. They all have heard about the war and are ignorant to the fact that they have heard stories that the Nazi are placing Jew into a camp, called a concentration camp (death camp). He and his family one-day find out what the cost of being ignorant is. The Nazi's come to his town and quickly starts placing all the Jews who live there into ghettos. Elie and his family go through unspeakable torture. They are sent to Auschwitz. Auschwitz is infamous for being one of the most unbelievable death and work camp in the Nazi history.
This book helped me to see the real horrors of the holocaust. I had to stop numerous times while reading this book to stop and say wow how could this possible happen? I feel that this is a great book to read.
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Summary: Wiesel's "Night" Good Reading and Thought Provoking Work
Review: "Night"by Elie Wiesel, evokes feeling for the Jewish people who suffered through the Holocaust and also brings one to ponder just how these things happen in the first place. Upon reading we can't help to get an insight into the horror the story tells, albeit a very small part, but it also brings questions to our own minds. How is it so many people can torture other human beings simply because a leader decides it is right? How is it that as human beings we are so weak we can be swayed to go along blindly and kill innocent people,among them thousands of children? Futhermore, it makes one question whether it is possible that so many thousands of people could have committed such horrendous acts without regret and conscience. Not only does the reader feel for the victims but also feels for those who were forced to take part in the slayings as it is inconceivable that so many people could have willingly partaken in the Holocaust. This account of the Holocaust has brought not only emotions of anger and sorrow for the Holocaust victims but has also promoted a great remorse that human beings have been, are, and will likely continue to harm others for any variety of reasons. This book brings alot of questions to mind about the shortcomings of the human race. Elie's account of the Holocaust is definately worth reading and reading again.
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Summary: Detached account of a horrific event
Review: Night, by Eli Wiesel, is the story of a fifteen-year old Jew imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Wiesel wrote this book about fifteen years after the event in order to distance himself from it somewhat (obviously, the experience left too much of an impact to ever be forgotten.)Through his direct prose and straight language, Wiesel informs the reader of the horrors of the Holocaust. SS guards, barracks, showers, transportation, death marches, rations ... nothing escapes without Wiesel's observations. However, the book lacked description, perhaps because the experience was still too painful for Wiesel to recall-or perhaps because words do not exist to describe the trial. If only one book is read about the people behind the Holocaust, it should be Anne Frank's Diary. However, if one book is read about the Holocaust itself, Eli Wiesel's Night is compelling, shocking, and enlightening.
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Summary: Night
Review: Night. Night is the diary of a young Jewish boy named Elie Wiesel. His recollections take place in his hometown; then the story carries on to the concentration camps of Europe. His frightening tales of the horrors he experiences with his family tell of the conditions and crushing manual labor he and his father perform from the time of their capture and the time of their liberation from the Germans. I find this book to be a horrific reminder of the past and inhumanities committed against other human beings. The only drawback I can find in this book is the first one to two chapters go relatively slow, then afterwards the book picks up to a fast pace. I recommend this book to anyone who likes stories of survival against all odds. All and all a very riveting tale by Elie Wiesel.
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Summary: If you can break my covenant...Jeremiah 33:20
Review: THUS SAITH THE LORD; If ye can break my covenant with the day, my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season; THEN may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests my ministers. In other words, good luck you rocket scientists, see if you can outdo G-d Himself!!! I Chronicles 17:27 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee forever: for thou blessest, O Lord, and it shall be blessed forever-words of King David, second king of Israel. Robert Frost's acquaintance with night surely can't compare with Wiesel's account. If you're not acquainted with Wiesel's Night, then read this book, easily read in one day.
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Summary: Unrelenting... A book that should never be forgotten.
Review: I know this book is already acclaimed and pretty much reccommended by everyone, but I felt I had to put in my own two cents. This book was so unrelenting, so horrifying..it's not a story about an adventure. It's not a story about a hero triumphing over his villain. This book is a essentially a series of horrific and tragic events happening to a young boy, and how he survives them. As Elie Wiesel says in the novel, "Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as God himself. Never." And neither should we.
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Summary: Night: A Short But Sobering Masterpiece
Review: NIGHT is the true story of what Elie Wiesel went through during the Holocaust, written by the man who, as a teenage boy, witnessed the atrocities first-hand and somehow survived. This is his story; it is also the story of the millions who experienced the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, by far the biggest and most notorious of its kind. It is a short read (only about 110 pages for the paperback version, which I have had for the past 15 years); however, it tells you pretty much everything you would need to know, at least on a *basic level*, about what happened to ordinary, innocent people in Europe between 1939 and 1945---people whose only crime was to be born in the wrong place, at the wrong time. It is the story of young Eliezer, a studious and faithful Orthodox Jewish boy living in Hungary, who, along with his family and everyone else he knows, is taken by the Nazis and transported to Auschwitz. The horrors that befell him as a victim of the evils of hate and intolerance tried him physically, emotionally and spiritually---causing him to question his faith, and the God in which he had so fervently put his faith. NIGHT offers a harrowing journey through what is still the most misunderstood period in 20th Century world history. It provides no easy answers, but provokes plenty of thought and discussion. It needs to be required reading for all American public school students entering Middle/Intermediate/Junior High School---if only to ensure a basic understanding among the future generations of what the Holocaust was, so that one day, we may all learn to prevent such travesties. Unfortunately, we're not there yet, but one day, God-willing, maybe we will be. MOST RECOMMENDED; AGES 11 & UP
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Summary: Wrenching
Review: Elie Wiesel definitely has an agenda, and it doesn't make for entertaining, light-hearted reading. It's all Holocaust material. This one is technically a novel, but it so closely follows the author's concentration camp experiences that it's best to read it as if it's autobiography. Like Wiesel, his main character in Night is a piously religious teenager who, having survived the genocide that obliterated his family, suffers survivor guilt.
There are no easy answers in this hard-to-read book, but it marks Wiesel's first step in his lifelong goal of bearing witness for those who died.
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Summary: On my favorites list.
Review: I think I read "NIGHT'at least 3 times. Its the kind of book you put on your bookself forever. Mr.Weisel is truly a remarkable man. His writing style is so deep and you feel you are right there with him. The things he endured in the concentration camps and the loss of his family is truly something that makes you feel your life with its little ups and downs can not compare to his loss and suffering. I truly admire Elie Weisel not only for his courage but for his determination. I recommend this book for anyone over 12. A wonderful read.
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