Night is a horrific reality written by Elie Wiesel.
A masterpiece, it is one of the most horrifying memoirs ever written. It’s an autobiography written by Elie himself which makes you imagine his past in World War 2 so vividly. Night is a book that won't let anyone forget about this ugly past.
Eliezer, the main character was a very observant boy who was also very dependant on his parents. He was only 15 years old when the Nazis came for 15,000 Jews who lived in his hometown of Sighet, Transylvania, in 1944. Auschwitz is the name of a death concentration camp where 1 million Jews were held captive including Eliezer and his family.
Within minutes of arrival, Eliezer’s mother and his …show more content…
Eliezer was just a teenager that had to deal with the emotional pain of his father's death. The unimaginable hell Eliezer had to go through was insane. No human should have gone through what Eliezer and 11 million other Jews experienced
This experience would have been very difficult for Elie Wiesel to write. I believe that anyone who has been through some sort of trauma or bad experience would find it difficult to write about especially when you have to remember all the horrible stuff that you might have experienced. This book has very short sentences that get straight to the point. There is barely any sentences in the book ‘Night’ that were very detailed. I believe they were short and straight to the point because it would have been difficult to write very detailed sentences that would have been hard for Elie Wiesel to write. “Behind me, an old man fell to the ground. Near him was an SS man, putting his revolver back in its holster”pg 30.
I think the impact this book has is the knowingness and how you know about war, death, destruction and ‘Night’ makes you think about the reality and harshness of this …show more content…
Night is a book that displays and shows the physical, mental and emotional darkness World War 2 was. Every single person who suffered in the Nazi concentration camps experienced the darkness of life, mind and soul.
That is why it is called Night. This book centers around the hardships Elie Wiesel experienced during his time in the Nazi concentration camp.
Elie Wiesel's ‘Night’ accounts his experience in the Nazi death camp. He has written this book to let the readers visualize a bit of insight to this horrendous time during World War 2 and so he could show the readers what the holocaust was like through a survivor's point of view.
Night is relevant to us today because of the rising power of Donald Trump, terrorism and the racism of Donald Trump trying to get rid of the Mexicans and other immigrants. This is just the beginning before he turns this into his “Final Solution” like Hitler tried but failed to do in World War 2. History may repeat itself unless we, ourselves, take