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Summary: "Night" an amazingly true account!
Review: I liked this book because Elie Wiesel started the book with detailed events,but towards the end he just gave us fragments of his life and let us piece togeather his life at the concentration camps.The one thing I did not like was the descriptiveness of some of the deaths.This book was great because it was thought provoking and brought about the reality of the Holocaust which was harsh.
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Summary: A detailed book about the Holocaust
Review: Night is about the execution of the Jewish race during WWII. It goes in depth about Elie Wiesel's life in a concentration camp and how he had winessed many horrifying accounts to other people's death. When I read the book, I was both fascinated and terrified. It brought to life what I thought could only be a nightmare.
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Summary: Horrifying
Review: This book is so unbelievable. I cannot fathom life in a concntration camp. I could not put it down.
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Summary: A great book for an inside look into the life of a survivor.
Review: Night is a book that you can't put down. It isn't because it is too exciting or because you need to read it for your English class, it is because you know it is true. You know that you simply can't out down a person telling their fears and horrors while they lived through the Holocaust. You can't put it down because it is the truth.
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Summary: Fabulous Teaching Tool
Review: I require my eighth graders to read this book as part of my nonfiction work in conjunction with their studies of the Holocaust. The questions that I require them to ponder are thought provoking, and they must really examine human nature (often for the very first time). Elie was the age of my students during his period of imprisonment. Through the course of the work they examine their own relationships with their parents, their faith, their fear and pain, people who hate, and the inevitability of death. I am willing to bet that they will remember Elie Weisel for years to come. I thank him for his poignant honesty. Children need that.
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Summary: A chilling tale of destruction
Review: This is the type of book that is unable to be put down. I have never felt so terrorized at a past event in history as I have after reading Night. I feel that everybody simply must read this book as a respect to the victims of the Holocaust. A true classic.
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Summary: Powerful stuff
Review: Not a real upbeat book, but should be read. Leaves you with some images that will stay with you after you have finished the book.
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I read this book for school and though it was a very good book because I gave someone who was in the holocaust perspectivve of the book. I would recommed this book to anyone!
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Summary: The horrifying account of Concentration Camps
Review: In Night, Elie Wiesel brings to life his abhorrent account as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp in World War II. The experiences he describes are horrifying, but true. The book was well written and had excellent historical detail. Because of this, I found book was difficult to put down. The book begins during World War II in Transylvania, where the Wiesel family lived a pleasant life. One day in nineteen-forty-two the Germans invaded their city and expelled all Jews, including the Wiesel family. Eliezer and his father were separated from his mother and sisters. He and his father were sent to work in Nazi concentration camps until the end of the War. He found that life in these camps was difficult. He had to work all day just to get small portions of food. If he did not work he would be shot or burned in a furnace. The main character in this story is the author, Eliezer Wiesel. Elie was a fifteen year-old boy at the time. He frequently questioned why God would punish the Jews in this way, but never received an answer. In the concentration camps, Eliezer worked hard and tried to do the best he could so he would not be killed. Sometimes he and his work group were directed to travel to different camps because the Russians were closing in on the Germans. During these movements they would march and sometimes even run to these far away camps. Whoever could not keep up would be shot. Eliezer's ordeal ended with the liberation of his camp by the Americans in nineteen-forty-five. At the time of the liberation he was the lone survivor of his family. Like thousands of others, his mother, father, and sisters were victimized by the cruel Nazi policy. As a teenager living in Sault Ste. Marie, MI., it is difficult for me to imagine living in a concentration camp like Eliezer Wiesel. I can understand why he would question his faith in God. It is important for young people to learn about the cruelty that was inflicted against the Jewish people during World War II. Overall, this was a great book. It showed me a glimpse of what happened to Jewish and other ethnic groups during World War II. This book had excellent historical detail. I would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys reading about World War II.
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Summary: An examination of the essence of humanity.
Review: This book forces the reader to examine what it means to be human. As the ghettoes and concentration camps stripped away personal belongings, physical fortitude, and finally dignity, the victims were confronting, layer by layer, their instinct for survival and their will to live. If you have seen the "Holocaust" mini-series, the movie "Schindler's List," any of the countless documentaries on the subject, and read "The Diary of Anne Frank," you will not find much that is new in the physical description of the conditions of the concentration camps. But remember that this book was one of the first accounts published of the inside story. What is most surprising is that Elie Wiesel was able to lose his faith in God and survive the horrific conditions of the camps and a death march. How he accomplished this with no assistance from a higher being I do not know, but I suspect that in some sense his father took the spiritual place of his God and that is why Elie was so vacant when his father died. The book is a fast read that might also be entitled, "Shattered Faith." That, to me, is the real tragedy of the story and a scar that the rest of the world will continue to share.
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