Night

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Summary: Night
Review: "Night", by Ellie Wiesel, explains his real life in the Concentration Camps during World War II. His family and friends who were originally from Hungary were Jewish and were forced into starving, suffering, and mistreatment by the German leader, Adolph Hitler. The Nazi death camp's horror turns this young boy into the agonized witness to his family's murder, and the destroys his faith in God. This book awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute worst and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. The autobiographical nature of this book helps the readers identify with all the suffering and mistreatment that many innocent people had to witness and go through. Ellie Wiesel makes the scenes so real that any reader can feel like they were living in the horrible and terrifying events. The scenes are so vivid that the words can picture the Jews during the mistreatment of the Holocaust. Wiesel has described a painful journey through the darkness, through the false dawns and false days, until there are hints that tiny shafts of light can pierce the seemingly unending nights.

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Summary: searing
Review: How it must have hurt Wiesel to write this incredible account. Wiesel's life demonstrates the reverse of Rollo May's dictim that the worst error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

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Summary: A Tragedy To A Good Person
Review: When I first read the book NIGHT it was one of the saddtest books that I ever read. Because It was during the world war II. I think that was one of the bad thinks that happened in those days because the NAZIS were the people that didnt like anyother race but their race. I think ELIE WIESEL is a bery brave person to tell part of his life. I think night is a terrying account of the nazi death camps horror that turns a young jewish boy named Elie Wiesel into an agonized witness to the death of his family. Night is one of the shoking memories of evil from the nazis againts the jews and other people that are not from the same color or race. Elie Wiesel for me is giving a message that this horror that he has been through must never be allowed to happen again in the world.

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Summary: Night
Review: Night , by Elie Weisel The novel Night is about a Jewish community that gets taken over by Germans during World War 2. The novel shows how the community was effected and the permotion of violence lead most of the people to their grave. Elie Weisel is was a religious boy that was about to undergo the biggest faith challenging moments of his entire life. Throughout the book he tells the truth about how he lost his faith in the jewish community and in God. At one time he goes so far as to say that there must be no God because he would not allow someone to suffer so much. I think that if one is so religious when his life is going great than maybe God was testing him outside of a perfect life. Elie also shows the way that a boy will even consider his father a burden and something that is holding him back. When the leader of the cluster of people started to beatup Elie's father Elie did nothing to protect him. He even went so far as to not want his father to make it through the ordeal. This is a perfect example of the things that a person will do to live. The novel shows a very interesting look on the germans that surprised me. The novel talks about how the jewish people invited the germans to live with them and how well educated they are as well as curdious. I would have thought that Elie would have tried to hide that story to make them sound more evil. Instead he showed that the germans were only following directions given by the dictator Adolf Hitler. The novel gives an interesting look on how there are differant things that inspire us to do good as well as bad things.

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Summary: A BAD DREAM
Review: When I read the book Night, I was so impressed because I was impacted by the things that the Jewish population suffered in the Holocaust. As I was reading Night, I was more interested in the book because I was learning different things that Elie suffered in the Holocaust during World War II. I can image how the Jews were suffering by the things that they believe and other people tried to exterminate them for the different background that they had. Some things that the Nazis didn't understand about the Jews were that they were very religious and they believed in only in one God. Some other things that I like about the book Night, was that this book was written by Elie that was in a real concentration camp with other Jews. Elie knows how the experience in real life, and how they were treated. I recommend this book for people who want to learn more about the Holocaust.

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Summary: Night
Review: This book is about a fifteen years old boy who was taken with his family to the concentration camps during Hitler's rampage. He and his father were separated from his mother and sisters. He tells about life in the concentration camps and their struggle for survival. There was a scene in which Elie was watching a guard and a Polish girl through a crack in a building. She had her shirt off and he could not help himself, but to laugh. This found him getting whipped twenty-five times on his back until he passed out in front of everybody on his block. The guard told him not to tell anyone about what he saw. If he did then he would get ten times worse. There was a scene where Elie Wiesel and his father were laying on a bunk bed and he was encouraging his father to push on and to keep on trying not die. He would tell his father that they did not have much farther to go. This was near the end of the novel. He tells much of this story to a "beautiful young Jewish" girl which once encouraged him earlier. She encouraged him the same, to push on and to strive for the finish line, which was for them, the end of Hitler's reign. This was a good book. Some parts were suspenseful and some were funny. It was sad, although not as tragic as I thought it to be. In the end it was sad that his dad could not make it since they had been through so much together. I do not understand, though, how they were able to detach their feelings and relationship to family members during this time period.

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Summary: Elie Wiesel's "Night"
Review: The editor and most other reviewers have done a great job in reviewing this book, and I can only add a few things from my viewpoint. I thought that I was past tears, and I wasn't. I thought that I could forget, and I couldn't. But the lessons of history should not be repeated over and over again by generations that forget. The first steps to Auschwitz are the steps of blaming the innocent and glorifying the guilty. Some even do it in the name of God or Country or Policing the World or Rescuing the World. Let us begin by rescuing ourselves and living our lives as examples, not rescuing the past or the future or God or Country. When we have proven our own worthiness and freedom from evil beyond all doubt, then we may avoid the Auschwitzs in our own country. That is all we can do for history and for ourselves.

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Summary: Night
Review: This book is about a fifteen year old boy who was taken with his family to the concentration camps during Hitler's rampage. He and his father were seperated from his mother and sisters. He tells about life in the concentration camps and their struggle for servival.

This was a good book. Some parts were suspensefull and some were funny. It was sad, although not as tragic as I thought it to be. In the end it was sad that his dad could not make it since they had been through so moch together. I do not understand, though, how they were able to detach their feelings and relationship to family members during this time period.

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Summary: Unforgettable
Review: This is a book so moving, so powerfull that you will never forget it. It is a short book and yet its impact will stick with you forever. This is a must for anyone interested in learning about the holocaust. Everyone should read this book.

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Summary: Fascinating
Review: Elie Wiesel's account of Nazi Germany left me stunned. Once I finished, I just sat there thinking about the book and realizing that it wasn't a work of fiction, but a true story. I had to read this book in my high school English class and it blew me away. The way he and his father try and beat the odds to stay together, the horrors of a concentration camp, what its like to go for days without food, etc. The sheer simplicity of it makes it seem so real, yet so fake. The metaphors and personification that he uses to describe events are beautiful. There are so many underlying meanings in the book, so many great lines (That night the soup tasted of corpses) that make you sit back and wonder how this sort of thing could have happened. I recommend this book to anyone (probably 9th grade and up, its pretty gruesome) and have nothing but good things to say about it, definitely one of the best books I have ever read. If you forget everything about this book, NEVER, EVER forget that it was a true story, and the last line.........