Rating: Summary: Awsome Review: I have never read another book quite like this one. All I can say is it is incredible. It is not a book with happy ending. Though this book is fiction it is at the same time an account of the authors feelings and experiences. He was a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp. The way he uses words keeps you reading and unable to put the book down. I have not given a great description, because that is difficult. I can say it left me wanting to re read it and to find as many other books by Elie Wiesel as possible.
Rating: Summary: How I the rate The Accident Review: Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a story about a city of Jewish people who are being killed by a guy named Hitler. The main characters are Hitler, The Weisel, and a city of Jewish people. Hitler is a leader who tries to kill all the Jewish people.The Weisel is a guy who tries to lead all the Jewish people to freedom, and the "Jews" are the people living in the city being killed. My favorite character in the story is The Weisel because he tries to save all the "Jews." I can relate to the "Jews" because I am Jewish. I have never done or felt any of the things in the story. I liked the book because it told me all about what happened to "Jews." My favorite part of the book was when the families got separated from each other. I would not want to change anything in the book. I recommend this book to older people because of all the gore, but I also would recommend this book to Jewish people who want to learn about their history.
Rating: Summary: Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel Review: Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a story about a city of Jewish people who are being killed by a guy named Hitler. The main characters are Hitler, The Weisel, and a city of Jewish people. Hitler is a leader who tries to kill all the Jewish people. The Weisel is a guy who tries to lead all the Jewish people to freedom, and the "Jews" are the people living in the city being killed. My favorite character in the story is The Weisel because he tries to save all the "Jews." I can relate to the "Jews" because I am Jewish. I have never done or felt any of the things in the story. I liked the book because it told me all about what happened to "Jews." My favorite part of the book was when the families got separated from each other. I would not want to change anything in the book. I recommend this book to older people because of all the gore, but I also would recommend this book to Jewish people who want to learn about their history.
Rating: Summary: Brilliantly Depressing!! Review: The Accident by Elie Weisel begins with an accident. A man gets hit by a cab and there it all begins. The man Eliezer is hit and his girlfriend Kathleen rushes him to a hospital..where he fights and fights as he wants to die and the doctor saves me... Why would a man want to die? The past never leaves us does it. This story is about the Holocaust and its survivors or rather one of its survivors and life as he sees it today - before the accident and after. While faced with his life or death decision he recalls his time in the German deathcamp at Auschwitz. He recalls the tragedy of of a young girl led in prostitution by the Nazi's, his passionate affair with a woman he will never love, and the horrific events that befell he and his family. The Accident is a part of a trilogy called "The Night Trilogy" and after reading this one book I am just waiting to lay my hands on the other two. Excellante!! A true genius...
Rating: Summary: How I the rate The Accident Review: The Accident is a book that really makes you think about your life and how well you have lived it. When he gets put in the hosipital by this accident, he starts to think how well he lived his life. I liked how it went back and forth between when he was in the hospital and back to things that happened before the accident. This book has a really good moral, well this is the moral i got out of it. You should put the bad things of the past out of your mind and only keep the good, and live life to the fullest because you never know when it is going to end. there are little saying and conversations in the book that i like very much. there is a part in the book where the guys friend paints a portrait of him while he is in the hospital and the day he gets out he doesnt end up takeing the portrait home, insted he friend that painted it does something with. but over all this is a good book, well if you like books that make you think about yourself.
Rating: Summary: The Accident Review: The Accident I recently read the first person narrative biography, The Accident, by Eli Wiesel. This novel is very real which leads it to be depressing. I am not real sure I liked the book. It was interesting, but it was never very happy. The main character, Eliezer, comes from a concentration camp to New York and tries to start his life over. He is soon afterwards hit by a taxicab and severely hospitalized in a body cast. He then reflects on his life up to that point as he lies in the hospital all day talking with his doctor about death, pain, and love. His doctor meanwhile tries to figure out if the accident really was an accident. People interested in relationships or a person's psyche may be interested in this novel. The reader is invited into every thought that Eliezer has. It is very personal, and Eliezer is very depressed from a tormented past from concentration camps and the catastrophe that happens to his people. He contemplates all aspects of living after being so near death. I am not really sure anyone will enjoy this book. This book is more of an eye opener. This is a good book for people who enjoy realism and pessimistic symbolism.
Rating: Summary: The Accident Review: The Accident I recently read the first person narrative biography, The Accident, by Eli Wiesel. This novel is very real which leads it to be depressing. I am not real sure I liked the book. It was interesting, but it was never very happy. The main character, Eliezer, comes from a concentration camp to New York and tries to start his life over. He is soon afterwards hit by a taxicab and severely hospitalized in a body cast. He then reflects on his life up to that point as he lies in the hospital all day talking with his doctor about death, pain, and love. His doctor meanwhile tries to figure out if the accident really was an accident. People interested in relationships or a person's psyche may be interested in this novel. The reader is invited into every thought that Eliezer has. It is very personal, and Eliezer is very depressed from a tormented past from concentration camps and the catastrophe that happens to his people. He contemplates all aspects of living after being so near death. I am not really sure anyone will enjoy this book. This book is more of an eye opener. This is a good book for people who enjoy realism and pessimistic symbolism.
Rating: Summary: The Accident Review: The Accident I recently read the first person narrative biography, The Accident, by Eli Wiesel. This novel is very real which leads it to be depressing. I am not real sure I liked the book. It was interesting, but it was never very happy. The main character, Eliezer, comes from a concentration camp to New York and tries to start his life over. He is soon afterwards hit by a taxicab and severely hospitalized in a body cast. He then reflects on his life up to that point as he lies in the hospital all day talking with his doctor about death, pain, and love. His doctor meanwhile tries to figure out if the accident really was an accident. People interested in relationships or a person's psyche may be interested in this novel. The reader is invited into every thought that Eliezer has. It is very personal, and Eliezer is very depressed from a tormented past from concentration camps and the catastrophe that happens to his people. He contemplates all aspects of living after being so near death. I am not really sure anyone will enjoy this book. This book is more of an eye opener. This is a good book for people who enjoy realism and pessimistic symbolism.
Rating: Summary: LIfe filled with death Review: The Night Trilogy was a very difficult book to read emotionaly. Eile was able to discribe his horrific experiences in such great detail it almost made you feel as if you were there. Elie was able to draw in readers with Night and to keep them wondering with Dawn and The Accident. Night was by far the best of the three books since it was very facual and provoked your thoughts in ways they have never been provoked. I enjoyed reading this book for its historic value along with it's high emotional content. Dawn and The Accident were also very good books but they streched the symbolic phrases to a point were you didnt want to hear them any longer. "Eyes" was a phrase heard all to often in the three books. It was a very significant phrase but used to much. All in all it was a very good novel that I enjoyed reading. I recomend that anyone interested in the Holocaust or for just an enomtional read might try The Night Trilogy.
Rating: Summary: A good book overall, but confusing and unorganized Review: This book is a great source of symbolism and metaphors. The author gives a great understanding of the events that took place from 1940 until the present day. The three books put together form an intricate web of symbolism in which each event plays off another to leave the reader with a sense of suffering. The symbolism of death is with Elie throughout his entire life starting out in the concentration camps. Due to the fact that the author jumps around often, as far as time periods go, it makes the book very unorganized and hard to follow. As a whole, the book is focused on Elie's past and trying to forget it, but keep it close to him at the same time. So often, we try to change our past when the focus should be on the future. Elie is unable to do this because there is too much for him to forget and not enough for him to change.
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