Night

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Summary: Hate v. Life
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel is a very real and provocative story. It's very emotional and true. The true story of Elie and his father is well documented in this little book. So compact, yet so life-changing. Elie struggles with his trust in G-d. "G-d is dead." In the camps, people be came so desensitized, that they couldn't even bring themselves to cry for the death of a close relative. "To cry was to die." It has changed the way I think about life and hatred. How fragile they both are... And how they simply cannot mix or the outcome will be awful. A single drop of hate can kill; thus, changing the lives of thousands (and Millions in the case of the Holocaust). I've listened to the stories that my grandmother told me about her experiences during the Holocaust. Wiesel tells the story exactly the way it happened for himself as well as countless others. Being able to relate to the book is a plus, but Night is definately meant for everyone.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book brought a lot of inspiration. I was assigned to read this book for an English class. I only had to read pages 1-20, but I could not put the book down. I had to finish it. The accounts of Elie showed his struggle for life and his views on his god. I would reccommend this book to anyone.

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Summary: Man's Inhumanity to his fellow man
Review: This is a stark and harrowing tale of survival under the worst of unimaginable circumstances. Unfortunaltely a true account of a halocaust survivor who will be forever traumatized by these experiences of his youth. An important book for all to read since it is sometimes hard to comprehend the extent of man's inhumaity to his fellow man. The author who endured these experiences in his adolescence describes totally losing his faith in God for allowing this to happen. One can certainly understand the response when one reads his terrible eye witness account of his father's cruel death just before liberation. One is struck by the tragic lost chances for escape: the disregarded warnings from a fellow villager's eyewitness account of his own deportation and narrrow escape from death, the uncompleted warning knock on the window, and finally the lost chance for liberation for both father and son had they chosen the road not taken, and made a decision to remain in the camp hospital. I would strongly recommmend Viktor Frankel's book Man's Search for Meaning for readers of this book. The victim's sufferings are similar. The author is an adult and a psychiatrist whose contrasting focus is in overcoming his awful circumstances and maintaining his human integrity and faith.

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Summary: Gripping Story of One Man's Holocaust Experience
Review: This gripping story of one man's experience in the Holocaust gets right at the heart of the issue of the existence of God for many people.

As Wiesel recalls the moving and shocking story of his families' and his personal story at the hands of Nazis in WW2, this boy who once loved the God of his Jewish religion, sees his God die at the hands of these Jewish exterminators. A God in this case who would allow such a brutal, unhuman event to occur to His people, the Jews, is no God to them.

Seen through this tragic happening in man's history, a God who stands by idly and permits such cruelties has no claim to be their God. His abandonment of His own people when they were so unjustly and brutally murdered and tortured brings about a complete stoppage of any attempts at further communion with God.

One cannot but feel pain and embarassment for the terrible inhumanities that the Jews endured at the hands of the Nazis. Wiesel powerfully brings these emotions out of the reader through his short,tight, intense writing style. Interspersed is this penetration recollection is Wiesel's reactions to what was occuring, and most importantly to the issue of God's existence is his reaction to God as the ordeal progresses.

He but gives brief glimpses of what God has meant to him, e.g. his interest in the Jewish mystical book of the cabbala. This is key for understanding his sentiments now concerning God. He states: "Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him . . . that is true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers." Further, he shows the belief that the Messiah would be a political Christ who would free the Jews and return them to a worldly power.

Thus, when the reality of the concentration camp and the deaths occuring around him appear, Elie is quick to see God as letting down His part of the deal. Wiesel's concept of God is a "this world" God, to deliver Israel only from any harm. Further, he equates evil that man precipitates upon man as God's fault and responsibility.

To be sure, Wiesel rejects (if aware) of the Christian view that differs with his concept. God is not source and fault of sin and has accomplished victory in dealing with all injustice and will publicly display this victory and rid saved humanity once and for all. All this God did through a Jew, Jesus the Christ (Messiah).

This book is valuable in that it not only powerfully describes the full rage of man's sinful nature expressed through the Nazi regime but it points out one man's changing views of a God which to a great extent is limited to his own questioning/reasoning ability. Left to our abilities, we do create gods which will not stand the test of time, nor do they provide what we really need, salvation for eternity, not from a cruel Roman government in the first century or from a cruel government in the twentieth, to save us from ourselves. We have met the enemy, and the enemy is sinful humanity. The Messiah came to be the vicarious atonement for this sinful mess.

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Summary: Night By Elie Wiesel
Review: The Novel Night by Elie Wiesel is a good book. It was interesting as well as confusing. When you read it you have to pay close attention or else you will have no idea what is going on. It is a terrifying story of a Jewish boy and his father as they move from death camp to death camp. As Elizer and his father learn real hardships they also learn to love more and to be dependant.

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Summary: Night
Review: I really enjoyed Night by Elie Wiesel. It was great! Night is about how Elie Wiesel, a teenage boy lived through the Holocaust. Elie is separated from his mother and sister. He is transported by boxcar and even has to walk strenuously to multiple death camps. People on the boxcar Elie is on are thrown bread by workers they pass. Everyone fights for the bread. People will do ANYTHING for a scrap of food. Elie encounters decisions on how to survive the time at the camps. This book is very well written and describes in vivid detail of the life and gruesome fates of someone living in the concentration camps. It also shows how the brutal conditions turn people against each other. I would recommend this book to anyone it is one of the best books I have read

dennis curtindale 8th period

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Summary: good book to read
Review: HI my name is Tony Hall from Madison, OHIO. And i read this book about two or three weeks ago. I personaly did not like this book because it didn't have enough action, the only time it had a little bit of action toward the beginning. But I would not recomend this book to any of my friends because they like action books too. I would recomend this book to someone whom might like books about life long stories. A book I would recomend is the diary of Anne Frank I thaught that was a good book and I could read that book over and over again. So I figured I would tell what I felt on the book night.

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Summary: NIGHT
Review: NIGHT I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. This book was absolutely terrific. It is the intense true story about how Mr. Wiesel survived the holocaust and the many concentration camps he was in. In the beginning of the book Elie lives with his parents and his sister. They allow the German Nazi's to come onto there city without even questioning them. They befriend all the people in this camp and nobody even seems to notice anything different. Then one day all of this changes. The Nazi's begin to ship all of the Jews including Elie and his family out of there homes. They are packed onto trains and they continue there horrific train ride. They arrive at a concentration camp without knowing how long they have been gone. Elie's mom and sister are taken directly to the gas chambers while Elie and his father are placed into the camp where they remained for quite a while. I definately recomend this book to anyone who is interested in the holocaust or someone just looking for a good story.

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Summary: Very Good
Review: I thought that this was a very detailing book and i enjoyed reading it. It taught me what it was like to be a jew and how they had to suffer everyday. Personally i don't think i could survive one day in a concentration camp like they had to. This was the first holocaust book i had ever read and i am now looking on to reading a couple more books like this one and see a little bit more about the holocaust. These types of books are very educational, and this one expecially. I think it was very hard for Elie Wiesel to remember what had happened when he was a child, and how he put in many details about his surroundings. I recommend to anyone, who wants to learn more about the sufferings of the Jews during the holocaust, this book and i hope that they enjoy it!

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Summary: Night
Review: Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. The author tells a lot of specific details in the story. The story is told in first person. The person who is telling the story does not say his name. He is twelve years old when the book first starts. the sotry that he tells is about his life going through the holocaust. His father is very kind and thinks about others more than thinking about himself. When they were put into a concentration camps his mother and sister were sent to another concentration camp. Some concentration camps were nice and some were very mean. The boy and his father go to all the concentration camps together. The boy goes through hard tasks like being whipped twenty-five times, having to to run twenty-five miles straight without stopping and having to not eat for six days. He tried to help his dad out as much as he could. Sometimes when his dad is suffering at the end, he would give him his rations of food that he had recieved. His dad dies at the end of the book three days after the liberation of Buchenwald. He was ill with food poisening. He was transfered to a hospital and was between life and death for fourteen days Then he had died.