Night Book Report

“Night” by Elie Wiesel is a book that describes the cruel and very harsh treatment in the camps during the Holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie continues to be a good person despite the atrocities and cruel treatment during the Holocaust. To write “Night” Elie Wiesel would have to relive the gruesome events he witnessed and lived through.
When Elie was first forced to move from the ghetto to the first camp he was scared and worried. Elie and his father got separated from his mother and sister. He realizes that he’ll never forget the sight of children burning. He will never forget any of the events that happened. Elie and his father were then forced to march to the actual camp, Birkenau. “Here and there, the police were lashing out with their clubs. "Faster!" I had no …show more content…
But Elie still had hope that the camp would get liberated. That while the others would get into fights he would stay out of it and keep to himself. When in Auschwitz he questioned his faith, and his God. Also while camped in Auschwitz Yom Kippur had come around and the prisoners, along with Elie were contemplating whether or not they should fast. “Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praise. I did not fast. First of all, to please my father, who had forbidden me to do so. And then, there was no longer any reason for me to fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him”(chapter 5, page