Night

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Summary: A great book
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel is one of the best books I have ever read. It is such a dramatic story of one 15 year old boy's will to survive in a concentration camp. He lost his mother and his sister but he would not give up. This young boy holds on to his father and tries to not lose him. All through the story the young boy survived with little food and water. All around him people were dying and beaten. The boy himself was beaten many times, but that did not stop him. I recommend this book to everyone. It is such a good story, and it tells what really happened in the dark time of the Holocaust.

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Summary: The Night
Review: The Night had an impact on me. It brings out just how horrible
the life of Jews back then was. Knowing that it was true made
you have a feeling of "you must know what is going to happen
next". While reading the book I realized that I couldn't put it
down and the end just made you want to know more. The book had
non-stop action that makes you cringe with excitement. The book
was also a little sad with some of the deaths of people that
were close or told their story about there family. I also
though the way they tied the story in with the way his life was
in the future of the story when he was older and out of the
concentration camps. I would recommend this book to anyone who
wants something to read when you are bored or just need some
excitement in your life. This book made me think differently
about life back then and how much people must have suffured.
Personally when I received this book I thought it was going to
be long and boring about general life of one boy but it turned
out to be one of the best books I have read in a while. I would
rate this book four stars out of five and definitely request
anyone to read this for any reason.

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Summary: What i thought of Night by Elie Wiesel
Review: I read Night by Elie Wiesel and I thought that it was a very touching book. This was a powerful story that showed you what it was like in the life of Elie Wiesel when he was in the Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. It made me appreciate everything I have more. Lately I've been really interested in the history of the Holocaust.I read this book because we had read a little bit of it in my english class.

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Summary: unforgettable story
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel was the great book of the real life stories of the holocaust. It showed the life of a boy who goes with little food and water each day and survives in a concentration camp,and how he had to watch his family and hundreds of people die each day. He is stuck with the memories of his family being killed and the lives of many innocent people who were killed. He show's how the Jews and other minorities were not treated like human's In these camps. He makes it feel like you're there with him and feel his pain. He also shows why this can never happen again.

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Summary: if you have any lingering illusions about a god, say bye bye
Review: this book should destroy any dangerous illusions we might have had about man's innate goodness, a loving god pulling the strings of human history, the reality of ideology, etc. the ideals of the enlightenment are quite over and done with, and wiesel's gut wrenching account of the event which basically erased any sense to his life and took his family from him along with his adolescent delusions is enough to make even the most convinced believer take a look or two at their oh so naive belief that god is in his heaven and all is right with the world. it is indeed sad, but certainly necessary and fundamental reading for those who actually believe that "everything happens for a reason". a must read

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Summary: Whether Fact or Fiction, a Profoundly Moral Work
Review: Some people say that Wiesel's NIGHT is fiction; others, that it is a factual memoir. Whichever side is right, what matters to me as a reader is that NIGHT is a profoundly moral work about surviving inhuman conditions, and that it is both powerful and superbly written.

I am reminded of two other great concentration camp works -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH and Victor Frankl's MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING -- which it resembles. Where Wiesel differs is in his ability to depict Eliezer's central dilemma: whether to survive at all costs, or risk his own survival by giving aid to his father, who is less able to stand up to the torments of everyday life in the camps. There is a beautiful image of the prisoners' forced move from Buna to Gleiwicz when another son leaves his father in the lurch while Eliezer does his utmost to help his. When his father dies of dysentery shortly before liberation, the book comes to an end quickly because outside the memory of that moral struggle, there was nothing but undiscriminated pain.

Throughout this short book, the small acts of kindness come unexpectedly and stand out like so many diamonds in a vast mountain of pitch.

Life is full of moral choices, and we don't always make the right decisions. Wiesel brings home the point that trying to make the right choice is always important. Perhaps that is what ultimately separates us from the SS and camp kapos.

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Summary: What a great book
Review: I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The book is very touching and shows a boys strength to keep himself and his father alive even though he knows that his mother and sister are gone. He goes through so many horrible things that it is amazing that he survived. At the age of fifteen he had been treated as an adult and was as tattered if not more worn then his elders. The book Night is the second Holocaust book that I have read. It is my favorite book. It shows you how far the society has come, and we should all be thankful for who we are and that the war is over.

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Summary: This is not a boring book review
Review: Night is a very powerful and moving story. It brings you through a life of a Jewish boy who watches his family picked apart in front of his eyes. At first I was going to read this book so that I could read a 109 page book and get a good grade in library. Expecting to have to choke this book down I began to read. I ended up putting myself in a state so that I could not put it down. It is very powerful. It is a eyeopener to a subject that some didn't really want to accept such as I felt. It gives you a step by step life of a Jew going through the Nazi death camps at the near end of the world war. Yet as I read on I became to realize what the horrible things really happened while I wasn't alive. At my age this was a true wake up call to what really happened so long ago.

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Summary: Book Review of Night by Elie Wiesel
Review: Night By Elie Wiesel
A Review
Elie Wiesel's account of his terrifying trials he experienced during the Holocaust are chronicled in his memoir titled Night. In his bone chilling and often gruesome chronicles the reader seems to be there with Elie as the blows from his oppressors rain down upon him. Elie Wiesel brings us back to the chaos of World War II with his very detailed and descriptive writing style. Night is both a terrifying and beautiful book. As we journey through the various nazi concentration camps with young Elie we are treated to horrifying memories and a tale of triumph over evil and unsurmountable odds.

It is late 1944 and as the western front is pushed back upon Poland young Elie Wiesel and his family become embroiled in the conflict. Being Jewish, as the Reich initiates the "Final Solution"plan Elie's life is turned upside down. Him and his family are carted off to the Warsaw ghetto where brutality becomes a day to day occurrence. Elie and his fellow jews are savagely beaten and degraded by the nazi forces. After his terrible time in the Warsaw ghetto him and his family are loaded onto cattle cars and taken to Auschwitz; an infamous death camp. Along the way they see people breakdown and come to the realization there is no hope for them, all is lost. Once at Auschwitz Elie being only fifteen years old is separated from his mother and sisters forever. What follows is a struggle is a struggle of obstacles him and his disenfranchised father must overcome. It is a very tragic reality that Elie Wiesel had to face.

As aforementioned, often times the brutal experiences are almost to hard to read. This book is not for those who are weak of heart. The brutal and blunt accounts are sometimes emotionally draining and very hard to read. For example, when Elie recounts the day a young boy was hung in Birkenau he tells of how he struggled and fought against asphyxiation for hours eventually dying in the end due to massive trauma to the head inflicted upon him by a camp guard. On the other side though, if you are into history or find stories about triumph and tragedy interesting this is the perfect choice.

Amongst the terrifying imagery displayed in this book there is great triumph. Elie faces oppression and all the odds stacked against him, yet prevails. It is very inspiring to read about someone who faces certain death and loses everything he holds dear only to prevail in the long run. Mr. Wiesel survived the horror only to write this book and inspire and motivate many readers. It is also an excellent story because through Wiesel's intense writing you feel like you the reader are there in the camp with him. Elie Wiesel is an excellent writer and through his journalistic approach we learn a lot about the tragedy he faced during the Holocaust.

Night is an exceptional read, sometimes hard to read it deals with tragedy and teaches us how to prevent it. It is a very inspirational account about a young boy who quickly matures as he experiences the worst of humanity head on.

Mrs. Clynckes English 12
Justin, Zach, Kevin, Steve, Andrew
October 15th, 2001

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Summary: Marred by misrepresentation, but a good novel all the same.
Review: Elie Wiesel, Night (Bantam, 1960)

availability: on most high-school reading lists. will
never go out of print.

The first novel in Wiesel's well-known holocaust
trilogy (Night, Dawn, and The Accident) was originally
passed off by Wiesel as autobiography. While it's as
incorrect to call Night complete fiction as it would
be to hang that tag on, say, Bukowski's novel
_Hollywood_, there's still an air of duplicity about
it. Exaggerating and playing up the details of the
production of a Hollywood film can be seen as amusing;
exaggerating and playing up the details of Auschwitz
is probably best left to Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder.
Wiesel himself admitted the book contains fictional
content decades ago, yet it's still marketed-- and,
more depressingly, assigned to high school readers--
as straight autobiography. We're raising a generation
who still believe the holocaust is called the
holocaust because the Nazis lined up Jews in front of
flaming trenches and pushed them in alive.

That said, I finally got over my distaste for Wiesel
himself and cracked the cover on this. As a novel,
there's certainly much to be said for it. It could be
argued that Wiesel's style here is the basis for much
of what's come to be known as extreme fiction
(splatterpunk, etc.)-- Wiesel wouldn't allow himself
to write about the holocaust for ten years after its
end, and that time allowed him to adopt a detached,
almost journalist-style air. Detachment, as we all

know, is a much better way of getting horror across
than high emotion. The book is quick and coherent, and
Wiesel writes with an easy lucidity. The book is
simple and easy to follow without the feeling that the
author is ever talking down to his audience, which is
definitely a point on the positive side. In fact, the
only negative I can come up with about the text itself
isn't really a negative at all-- there's another
description of the forced march that takes up the last
third of _Night_ in Miklos Nyiszli's book _Auschwitz_,
and Nyiszli goes into a bit more detail, which allows
the reader to get a more personal view of the event.
However, that's not to take anything away from
Wiesel's account.

Certainly worth reading, but remember-- it IS a novel.
** 1/2