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Summary: Night
Review: Has anyone ever wondered what the holocast was about? Well the book Night will help anyone understand what it was like to live throught the Holocaust. I liked this book because of the irony, figurative language, and the foreshadowing.
The irony, to me was very effective because, when i thought something was going to happen, it usally never did. An example of the irony is: "then i remebered sonethind else: his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between the grow gretter." (Weisel, 87) In this quote, one of Elie's friends had ran withhim and he had died. But he did not realize that he had left his father because he was a burden to his son.
The figurative Language was very effective. Weisel creassted pictures in my mind asd i read. "They brought him a box. Lie down on it. On your Stomach! I obeyed. Then i was aware of nothig but the strokes of the whip." (Weisel, 55.) Elie got in trouble because he ahd saw one of the Kapoes having sexual interations, with on of the girls at the camp. In that quote it created a picture in of Elie getting whiped.
"Fire! I can see Fire! I can see a fire! there was a moments panic. Who was it who cried ou? It was Madame Schachter." (Weisel, 22) This is an example of foreshodowing. Madame Schachter saw fire, but there was nothing there. Then when they got to the camps there was the fire from the creamatory. This si effective becasue it tells what hppens later in the book.
In Elis Weisel's book night i like the irony, Figurativer Language and the Foreshadowing. I like the book because it is a real life story of how one personmad it throught the Holocaust. During the Holocaust over 6.6 million people died. That is 7,ooo times the amount of people i have in my town. I fourteen and i could not imagin going throught what he went through. I recomend this book to anyone that is interested in experiencing what Eile Weisel went through in the Holocaust.
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Summary: Stark and Powerful but....
Review: I am embarrassed to admit that "Night" did not register strongly with me. Since most of us know the plot, this reviewer won't retell it. Author Wiesel writes powerfully of his families' abduction by the Nazis and quick separation from his mother and sister in concentration camp. We feel earnestly for he and his father to survive against the "system" in captivity. Tragically, certain fellow prisoners appear to be as dangerous as the guards are. As they do in the military, rumors bearing false hope abound. "Every man for himself" selfishness also abounds, most graphically in the instance of the young man who falls out of step with his own father to avoid punishment. We sympathize with those who second-guess themselves for not escaping the Nazis early in the War, or not emigrating to Palestine. The main problem with "Night" is that it's all too brief. The ending happens far too soon, almost as if concentration camp were a terrible weekend, a bad dream, perfectly brutal but quickly dispensed with. This reviewer believes that the Holocaust is not done justice by a 109-page paperback. It demands more detail, more retelling, more names, more places, more faces and indeed-more suffering. So many of us, this reviewer included, remain ignorant of the Holocaust and absent greater detail, stand to remain that way. At the risk of sounding petty, a map would assist in the process. I honestly would like to know where Mr. Weisel suffered. One result of my reading of "Night" is that I intend to scroll through amazon[.com] for other (retellings) of the Holocaust. Hopefully I will find some that deal with this issue the greater depth, volume and detail it deserves.
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Summary: Should be required reading
Review: This book should be required reading in any class that even remotley covers the issue of the Holocaust. Wiesel offers insight into the absolute horror that was this terrible period of history. He brings you into the world he experienced and almost makes you feel as if you were there and thankful that you were not. However, I say "almost." There is no way any of us could understand what he and those millions of others experienced. Not one of them came out alive. Even those who did not perish had their lives taken from them. And not even the most powerful of earthly judges could give it back to them. The stories of fathers and sons fighting over bread. Of fathers and sons having no will to care if the other lived or died. Of husbands looking at their wives for the final time and not having the benefit of knowing that it would be the last time. Being robbed of their last chance to simply say goodbye. If you think you are having a bad day or life all together, take the little time it requires to read this book. I doubt you will still feel the same way afterward.
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Summary: "Night" as reviewed by beautiful Kayle Taylor ;)
Review: The book Night by Elie Wiesel was based upon true facts of the Holocaust. The book was talking about time im the later 1930s and mid 1940s. This book was OK. If my teacher wouldnt have made us read it than I wouldnt have read it. I didn't like how the Jews got treated, and all the mean things that they got said to them. That made me sad. I also didnt like some of the things that Elie had said. I didnt like how he was always talking about God, and the faith they had lost or gained in him. We--being readers--didnt care. Unless we're God freaks. The setting bothered me. Not that it was the same place every time, but just because it wasn't as interesting as if they wouldve or couldve added or changed a little bit of it. They didnt need more detail because the detail was actually good. That was probabally the best part of the book. This book was an biography by Elie Wiesel, and he did a good job. If you are interested in historical books, than I would reccomend this book. But if you like the new-aage crazy stuff, than dont bother. It is kind of hard to follow along unless you're really interested. Thanks for your time in reading this. SORRY MRS. H--I'LL HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO USE A LATE VOUCHER!!
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Summary: Superb
Review: I found Elie's autobiography superb. His eye-opening reality was an excellent comeback to the skeptics. To use the words "boring stuff" would be an ignorant and ridiculous look at the novel. For those who haven't thoroughly looked at the events of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and the other sites of Hitlar's evil. To find this horrific history mild would be ignorant. This book shows the dehumanization and inhumane treatment of the prisoners beat around like livestock by the Kapos (German officers). I strongly recommend this book if you enjoy or want to be enlightened by this piece of WWII history. You will not be able to put this empowering book down, trust me. - N.Z.
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Summary: An Emotion of a Book
Review: I was forced to read this book in my sophomore english class, and I'm glad I was. Night is a very emotional book. It's based on a true story and is written by the man who experienced the Holocaust first hand. I was hooked on it. It explains the Holocaust from a teenager's experience. I would definately recommend this book to people who are interested in history and who like a real tear jerker.
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Summary: short book
Review: this is a really short book. it puts all the hard-core facts without giving too much explanations. it's straight forward, and i didn't like that. but all in all, it has meaning to it.
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Summary: Article on the Night
Review: Believe it or not, but the book night is true. The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, is a real story. I didn't like it. It is just not my kind of book. The book is not good at all. I didn't like the autobiography in this book. It was not very interesting. There were a few, but not much. Like when the instructor was mad at Elie. He yelled, "listen to me you bastard." Just look at the bad language (Wiesel, page 56). I also didn't like his mood. He was too much about the nazi and stuff. It got boring after a while. Like "a-7713" (Wiesel, 49) that is my number. Its got no enthusiasm and is depressing.
The setting is just one more of the problems with the piece. It is the same setting through the piece. Some bad guys/good guys, kill all the good guys of the planet. Like when he was getting whipped. The German officer counted "twenty four...twenty-five!" (Wiesel, 55). I could get that all I want on the TV and it would be better. The book Night is a real story. On the Nazi and Jews in world war 2. This book is real egicational about World War 2. Though if some one wants to read something good. Don't read this. I do not recommend this book.
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Summary: Glimpse of Hell
Review: Even though I have seen many documentaries, heard witness acounts, etc.. reading his account was the most overwhelming understanding (well actually filtered glimpse) of not only unmitigated hell but the importance of fighting to insure freedom, I have encountered. When I was done reading, I just sat there for about a half hour trying to absorb and/or make some type of sense out of all of it. While I realize the math in the following statement doesn't work perfectly for my point, I think the idea still comes across.. War may be Hell but Hell is Aushwitz, Brikinaue, Dachau...
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Summary: Painful to read
Review: "Night" touched me very deeply, since the Holocaust took more than half of my family. Reading some of the reviews on Amazon, it infuriates me when people say the Holocaust never happened. If so, then where are my grandmother's two teenage brothers, her mom, all her cousins? Where are my grandfather's siblings and parents? Did they all vanish into thin air? And those numbers tattooed on my grandmother's arm? Did she request that at a tattoo parlor? Instead of the big family I should have had, I have photo albums filled with pictures of dead people. When reading "Night", in Elie's place I saw all the family members the Nazis took from me. Yes, it is graphic; but it is also real.
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