Elie Wiesel 's Night, brings the reader into the horrifying and gruesome reality that Jews faced during the Nazi reign. Most historical accounts in books and movies explain the events from the mindset of an adult who is witnessing or witnessed the appalling acts done to his (or her) fellow Jews. What makes Night unique is that it provides the perspective of a young teenage male. Night is written in an autobiographical style and is engrossing to the reader. As the reader, I believe that Night is a very eye opening and fascinating read for an audience in the teenage years and beyond. It is never a let down and cultures the audience on an very crucial event to understanding why and how the anti semitism mindset of the Nazi culture lead to the
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Elie (now in the children’s block) and all the other children laid flat on the ground of their block while grenades and gunshots went off. By six o 'clock that afternoon the first American tank arrived at Buchenwald. The people did not think of revenge or what they had lost, all they thought about was food even after they were full. Elie gets sick from a form of food poisoning and stays for two weeks in the balance between life and death. When he has the strength to get up he goes and looks in the mirror, the first time he had seen himself in months, he was just a corpse, a shell of a …show more content…
This was an emotional thing to read because I believe that making someone lose faith in their religion, making them feel like no one will take pity on you and no one can save you from this damnation is just utterly depressing. Another major event in the book that is emotional, was the death of Elie’s father. Through out the time of his incarceration in the concentration camp he was dependent on his father and vice versa. They were completely dependent on each other through a mutual bond for strength, courage, and the will to live. In the last transportation to Buchenwald Chlomo (his father) fell ill to dysentery and lost the will to live. One day Chlomo was taken away to the crematorium before Elie came back from working. This truly had the greatest toll Elie, now he was without two fathers.
Elie Wiesel wrote Night to show people all over the world what it was like to go through the concentration camps, to watch your family die, and to watch your faith in humanity entirely disappear. To show the cruelty of the Nazi’s to Jews and mostly the horrid things they did. He wanted those who had died to be remembered, for their souls to live on, and for their struggle for life to be realized. “To be forgotten is worse than death itself”-Freya. He truly achieved his goal in this breathtakingly expressive book about the hardships
Elie (now in the children’s block) and all the other children laid flat on the ground of their block while grenades and gunshots went off. By six o 'clock that afternoon the first American tank arrived at Buchenwald. The people did not think of revenge or what they had lost, all they thought about was food even after they were full. Elie gets sick from a form of food poisoning and stays for two weeks in the balance between life and death. When he has the strength to get up he goes and looks in the mirror, the first time he had seen himself in months, he was just a corpse, a shell of a …show more content…
This was an emotional thing to read because I believe that making someone lose faith in their religion, making them feel like no one will take pity on you and no one can save you from this damnation is just utterly depressing. Another major event in the book that is emotional, was the death of Elie’s father. Through out the time of his incarceration in the concentration camp he was dependent on his father and vice versa. They were completely dependent on each other through a mutual bond for strength, courage, and the will to live. In the last transportation to Buchenwald Chlomo (his father) fell ill to dysentery and lost the will to live. One day Chlomo was taken away to the crematorium before Elie came back from working. This truly had the greatest toll Elie, now he was without two fathers.
Elie Wiesel wrote Night to show people all over the world what it was like to go through the concentration camps, to watch your family die, and to watch your faith in humanity entirely disappear. To show the cruelty of the Nazi’s to Jews and mostly the horrid things they did. He wanted those who had died to be remembered, for their souls to live on, and for their struggle for life to be realized. “To be forgotten is worse than death itself”-Freya. He truly achieved his goal in this breathtakingly expressive book about the hardships