Night

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Summary: My opinion
Review: Night is a book focused on the holocaust that took place in the 1940's and 1950's. It is written from one of the survivors, Elie Wiesel. Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish adolescent who lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Elie explains his treacherous past with his experiences with the Nazis. His horrifying story has certainly made a positive impact on different readers as well as myself.
I like how Elie explained how the other Nazis tortured the other Jews. It gave the reader a sense of what was going on, and let the reader use their imagination. Elie's viewpoint is restricted to his own experience, and the tone of Night is therefore extremely personal, subjective, and cherished. Night is not meant to be an all-encompassing discussion on the experience of the Holocaust instead; it depicts the very personal and painful experiences of this single victim. Elie tries to keep his father with him throughout the story but also had to face the struggle to maintain faith in a compassionate God.
The whole book was depressing, especially at the end when Elie's father past away. It was a relief to hear when the U.S army came. It gave hope to hear that after all the killings, the U.S army finally liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Jews had a chance to revenge their friends and family. By writing this book, Elie Weasel has exposed the evil that the Nazis have given to the Jews and has given me a whole different perspective on the Nazis.

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Summary: Tragic, Gripping, Moving
Review: This concise and moving autobiographical novel by (1986 Nobel Prize winner) Ellie Wiesel makes a powerful statement. Wiesel was a Jewish teenager living with his family in the village of Sighet, Rumania in 1944 when the Germans came for them. As it was, Wiesel describes surviving Nazi concentration camps while his family and neighbors were either killed outright or wasted away from hunger and disease. We share the author's fears and survival instincts, and comprehend the callousness that he and his fellow inmates developed to maintain both their lives and their sanity. Few statements about the Nazi holocaust against the Jews, Gypsies, and other "enemies of the state" are as poignant as this sorrow-filled account. If anything, this readably moving account is too short.

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Summary: Night Review
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Night review

Has anyone ever heard or even gone through the holocaust? Well I just read the book Night and watched the movie The Last Days. I liked the book Night because it gave really good description and imagery throughout the book and gave you a good idea on what was going on. What else it had was good resolution in the concluding of the book. Night had a lot of foreshadowing throughout the book.
Weisel used a lot of imagery and details in Night. On page 11, Weisel used imagery such as "Each person will be allowed to take only his own personal belongings. A bag on our backs, some food, a few clothes. Nothing else." This quote to me meant that the Germans took everything away from the Jews so all that the Jews had left was the stuff that they had on their backs. It kind of meant that the Germans didn't care about anything but their selves so they took everything away from the Jews. I didn't think that was fair to do that but the Germans did it anyways.
Along with imagery, Weisel used good resolution at the end of the book as in "Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. We thought only of that. Not of revenge, not of our families. Nothing bur bread." (Weisel, 109) what this quotes really meant to me was that when they finally got set free all they wanted to do was eat nothing else. They didn't care about revenge or of their families because they were so small and weak all they wanted to do was eat. So this quote was kind of sad to me after they really never got to eat much.
Along with everything else that caught my attention it would have to be foreshadowing it ended up really happening later on in the book like in this quote "Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire! Some men pressed their faces up against the bars. There was nothing, only the darkness."(Weisel, 22) to me this meant that a lady was seeing what was going on at the concentration camp and she was trying to tell everyone but nobody believed her until they got their and seen what was really going on at the camp. So she was trying to help but everyone thought she was crazy. When they got there they had seen that they were burning people. So they figured out that she was really helping them out.
In conclusion after reading the book Night, I was really impacted by Weisels use of imagery and foreshadowing. It kind of meant that the Germans didn't care about anything but their selves so they took everything away from the Jews. They didn't care about revenge or of their families because they were so small and weak all they wanted to do was eat. Over 60,000 people that went to the concentration camp were killed.