Night

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Summary: Life in the Wrong Camp
Review: A Review by Jon
A young Jewish boy is alive during the time of the holocaust and is hiding from the Nazis as they are looking for as many Jewish people as they can. They are caught and brought to a death camp. They go through it tougher until one night the boys family is hung and killed, and he had to watch it all happen. He lives in the camp for many years and finally he is let out when thousands of people got out of it.

This is a very good story I liked the way it was in first person and you really never discovered the young boys name. It had a lot of surprises in it like when the boy's family died and they got to celebrate the two holidays (Christmas and New Years). It taught me a lot of things I didn't know about the holocaust and I thought I knew a lot because we studied it very much of last year. I liked the climax usage as they made it more exciting through the book. The one thing I didn't like was that it had a lot of things that weren't needed like the part about the homosexuals and what not. That just didn't interest me and I wanted to throw the book away.

I would most diffidently would recommend this book. It is a very helpful book if you were trying to understand the life in death camps and if you want a great read too, I gave it 3 out of 4 stars.

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Summary: a great read!
Review: ...I thought it was so riveting!! some parts were very sad such as when a man was being attacked for a piece of bread because everyone was so starved. but that wasn't the only sad part...it was a sad book, but it was really well written. i highly recommend this book. but i would read it only if you think you can handle it.

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Summary: Night
Review: Night is the best novel I have read in a long time. It gives a play by play of the tragedy of the Holocaust. It begins with Germany taking over and ends with the most tragic loss, the one of a family member.

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Summary: Amazing Book...
Review: I read this for an english class. The reason I selected it was because I thought that it would just be a breeze and easy to read. Once I got into the book, I didn't want to put it down. It's a very chilling, first hand account about the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and it opens your eyes to just what kinds of horrible acts the Germans forced on the Jews.

I would recommend this book to anyone that wants to learn about the greusome horrors of the Holocaust...

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Summary: So Thin, Yet So Moving
Review: This book, a mere 109 pages, is a very moving tale of the concetration camps in Germany. This book is a must read that leaves you shaken. Read it.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is an excellent portrayal of what life was like for Holocaust victims. While there is quite an excess of Holocaust literature these days, I feel that this is one Holocaust book that everyone should read. Some of the other reviews said that it was too graphic and violent. Well, the Holocaust WAS violent! People need to hear about these things, and this book is a perfect way to hear them.

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Summary: Wrestling with God
Review: Elie Wiesel was a twelve-year old Jew who was completely devoted to learning all he could about his religion. In Night Elie's faith is shaken when he sees his people suffering, so he has to reevaluate God in his life.

The God of Elie Wiesel's Jewish belief is the same God addressed by David in Psalm 22. Feeling like God may not hear, or may not exist, even, is nothing new. It is certainly not a novel idea uniquely occurring to Mr. Wiesel as a fifteen-year old prisoner. David wrote:

My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me?
Why do you remain distant?
Why do you ignore my cries for help?

Every day I call to you, my God,
but you do not answer.
Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief.
(Psalm 22:1-2, New Living Translation)

Elie is actually echoing his faith tradition, by honestly seeking God, and giving voice to his doubts that God hears. So it is easy to see his record of doubt as recorded in Night as a snapshot of what he is going through, not a systematic refutation of the existence of God. But that is exactly how it strikes him at the time.

Elie says his God is murdered. He refers to the hanging of the 'angel' boy as symbolizing this. Yet the angel boy was killed by people, just as the first murder victim, Abel, was killed by Cain. A more appropriate reference might be the killing of Jesus, since Christians (and some Jews, at the time) believe Jesus shared God's nature. The implications of actually killing God, then, do not necessarily imply the end of God. In Elie's view towards life, however, there is no resurrected God. He quotes the rabbi (Page 73): 'It's the end. God is no longer with us.' Wiesel then (two paragraphs later) refers to Calvary (his only Christ reference): 'Poor Akiba Drumer, if he could have gone on believing in God, if he could have seen a proof of God in this Calvary'' Yet, this is Elie quoting others. Does he himself say God is no more, if God ever was? Elie may feel that his belief is drained from him, like his tears, (Page 106) which do not flow after his own father finally dies, but Elie, as a fifteen-year old, is not ready to really personally say that he believes God is dead. Yet he dwells in the same turmoil documented by David in the Psalms. He comes close to renouncing God (on pages 64 and 65), but looking at it closely, he deflects a categorical rejection of God. He simply rejects the idea of the new Jewish year of Rosh Hoshana possibly being 'happy.' He also feels a void on the day of atonement (Yom Kippur) he chooses not to celebrate, as he feels a great 'void' in his heart (Page 66).

Elie says he feels like Job. Yet Job believed God existed. The book of Job records Jobs conversations with God. Elie's reference to Job is just a partial thought: 'How I sympathized with Job! I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.' In fact, Elie prays to the God he says exists: 'I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wonderful universe.'(Page 35). This same universe confronted Job, who is told by God: 'Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much.' (Job 38:2-4). Elie does not take the full measure of Job, when he refers to him. But this is understandable under the duress of concentration camp. Indeed, the first thirty-seven chapters of Job are filled with the exact same kinds of complaint against God.

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Summary: Night
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel is a book witch lets you peer into and have a look at what the consintration camps were like. The book is about survival, and what you may do to survive. Elie Wiesel uses supurb imagery throught the book, from the senery to describing a haning taking place in the camp. The book tells of the death of Elie's God through the trials of the camps and how he coped and how others strugeling with him copes with the terrors they faced by there Nazi pursucators.
When reading this book it makes you stop and wonder of how such otrosities could ever take place, and how the human mind could ever have the capacity to survive a hellesh place such as Auschwitz.
I recomend you read this book and try to put yourself in Elie Wiesel's place through every page. This book is a must have and a must read.

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Summary: Night
Review: Night was an amazing and terrifying account of the Holocaust. It was such an intense book that I felt that I was part of the camps prisioners. For the first time I realized the hatred and torchure the Jews really went through. The words Wiesel used provided such great imagry that I could see myself watching the hangings, smelling the smoke of the burning bodies, witnessing beatings and starvation. Night teaches you so much about power, survival, and staying with who you truely love. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a wonderful book with good messages.

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Summary: Life in a concentration camp
Review: "Night" was an interesting account of what went on in the concentration camps during World War Two. Elie Wiesel is the main character in the book. He tells us of his touching story, and how hard life was for him. You can't help but be touched by this book. Elie struggled to keep himself, and his father alive.

It starts off in the village of Sighet, Romania. The authorities began pushing Jews into trains and sending them off to Auschwitz-Birkenau complex. In the cattle car Jewish villagers were struggling to survive with minimal food and water. Space was very limited also. One of the Jews began hallucinating visions of flame and furnaces. Elie and his father have to lie about their age so they can depart with the other men. Elie's mother and sisters depart to a different concentration camp. Elie and his father are struggling to stay healthy so they can keep working. They then have to start sorting electrical parts in a factory.

Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest clashes horribly with the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When Elie gets separated from his family you can tell he lost a part of himself, a part of his happiness. For some death was the only way out.