Night

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Summary: stupidity is the definition of this book
Review: "work is liberty" disturbed me while i read because in the end i didnt come true and it made me wonder about it.They told all the jews a lie. The book was mostly about the Holocaust.I didnt really like the book night because it was very sad to read some parts on the book it is very disturbing to read the parts were they talk about burning people in the pit. I also didnt like the part were they killed babies.

If a baby and was a jew they were killed because there was no place for them because they couldnt walk or talk or even work. So the germans killed all the babies. The safest age in the concentration camps were between 18-40.If they were any younger the Germans would think they were healthy and they could probably work more and faster.

There are parts in the book about what a guy said that was irony which was "work is liberty" it means if you work hard and succeed in what you are doing you will get liberty(released from camp).

The start of the book is more detailed. Towars the end the narrator gets more short and abrupt.Since elies dad dies it changes to short and abrupt.

After reading the book it didnt seam to be very good.The book made me think of bad things and it kinda hurt my feelings.I didnt like were they killed the babies.

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Summary: my report
Review: This book impacted me because I believe in God nad have a personal relationship with Him. Elie Wiesel in this book went through a lot of persecution for his beliefs. Even though his have not gone through that kind of persecution , I can imagine how hard it would be.
In he beginning of the book Elie was really strong in his Faith. He wanted to learn a lot abou the mystical teachings of the Zohar. I , like him, want to learn a lot about God and His word, the Bible. Inthe book, Elie sort oflost his faith or rather didn't trust God as much. I want through a period in my life where I didn't want to trust God with everything.
Elie throughout the book often asked, "Where is God?" I have asked myself this question and the answer is here with us. Many of hte perple nt the book said that he Holocaust was to help them "kill the inner Satan." Although I don't agree with a lot of what the people in the book believed, I like the book very much mostly because I can relate to a lot of the things he went through.
This book has taught me a lot, like not to take life itself for granted. We take out lives and manu other things for granted. After I read this it made me look at things a lot differently and I was a lot more thankful. Ask yourself, "Do I take things for granted?" the for me was, "YES!"
I think many of the people in the book were thankful. But I am not sure. we should all be thankful for the things we have because they are not our own, they are God's and he can give and take as He pleases.

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Summary: My review
Review: "All the earth and the universe are Gods!"

This quote is true. The earth and the universe is God's. They thought they were safe or free because of God. Then they startded not believing in God later on the further they went because they weren't free.

In conclusion I liked the book I thought it was good.

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Summary: Halee's Review
Review: "It was no longer possible to grasp anything. The insticts of self-preservation, of self-defence, of pride, had all deserted us."(Night, 32)
In Language Arts we read the book"Night". It was one of the best books i have ever read. It made me realize how lucky I really was. What would life be like in Elie's (the main characters) shoes? Hopefully none of us ever will ever know. This book helped me understand the ..brutality that went on in those concentration camps.
In the beginning, the jews thought nothing of the Germans who were now living in their town. But slowly their rights were being taken away, and soon even their homes. The trip to these terrible camps waas just one of the jews test of strength and hope. Upon arivel, the jews saw first hand what was fueling those huge fire pits.
Elie lost faith and was no longer afraid... Elie's writing made it seem like [the end] would have been better than those camps. Elie was not the only Jew to loose faith, it seemed impossible to keep. Some beleived that Hitler was the only person who had kept his promise. He had intended to kill all of the Jews when he had no more use for them.
Elie managed to stay alive long enough to see freedom once again, or was it..? Why didn't anyone stop this from hapening in the first place? Why were the Jews treated poorly. They are no different from anyone else. I think that this book is a reminder of the suffering we can cause by [ill will]. It [hurts] people, families, and whole races.

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Summary: Bethany's review
Review: "Where is God? Where is He?"
That's one of the quotes from the book "Night". I thought the book was terrible, becuase the author (Elie Wiesel) went into way to much detail. He talked about babies getting thrown into the air and using them for shooting practice. They killed people for no reason. They threw people into a fire pit and let them die a slow aganising death. Can you imagine? I'd hate to have a slow, painful, and aganising death. That would stink!
Anyway, these Germans came and took the Jews to a camp where they would, well, die. The Germans took them to the camp in a train and if the Jews were to jump off the train they would get shot.
I just thought it was a really disturbing and sad book.

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Summary: False Hope
Review: "Work is liberty." Posted on the iron door of Auschwitz.
False hope was given throughout most of the book. They give us many false hope when reading. The hope of beeing set free and that doesnt happen, that they could be treated better, or that they would be rescued.
There was a bombing of the concentration camp wich gave them a big sign of false hope. There was only one casulity in this rescue attempt. The attempt was not a sucess.
Another Rescue attempt was made be the Russians. All the Jews were woken up in the middle of the night a forced to make a long journey to another camp. The Germans were afraid to loose control of the Jews to the Russians.
There was a lot of religon use in this book. "Where is God now?" is a quote that really touched me in this book. The reason that I touched me is because they say that God is the contorler of everything. If God cared so much about all these people and let them die for beliving in him what is going to happen to the rest of us. What I mean by this is the people that dont go to chuch everyday and are not total devoted to god but still believe in him?
Elie used very descriptive language throughout almost all of the book until his father died. The way he spoke in the book towards the end of the book became short and abrupt. Just gining details and not descriptions of emotions and scenes. Even with the abruptness you coulld still feel the pain of Elie and know what he was going through.
In conclusion i feel that this beek was very interesting. It made me feel for the prisoners. I dont think that the Jews should havebeen treated like that just because of their religion. I do recoment this book because to me it was very touching. I also think that this book is very realistic in the way Elis described his thoughts and feeling which made it very more intersting.

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Summary: review by matthew binschus
Review: "Warning: danger of death." This is one of many examples of irony from this book. Another example is "Work is liberty!" It did not matter if they worked or not, they would probably die anyways. These ironic statements made the book kind of interesting; however, I disliked this book.

One of the reasons that I disliked this book was because the author was very descriptive which made the book seem to drag along. If there was more story over description, it would have been better. Another reason that I did not like this book is that the book was confusing to me. Some of the language was hard to follow. Here are some the other reasons for not reading this book:

The author did a good job of telling what happened at the war; however some of the things he put in the book were unnecessary. For example, the author told us that they were shooting babies in mid air with machine guns.

Another reason that I did not like this book is that I thought it was too long. For example, the author put a lot of things in the book that was unnecessary. He told us that the German girls were letting themselves be kissed by the soldiers.

In conclusion, I did not like this book because it was to long, hard to follow and too descriptive. Therefore, I would recommend that you do not read this book. I do not believe that this book is worth the time to read it.

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Summary: Morally and Mentally Degrading
Review: "Where is god" Was a contravoersy of the book itself, and people reading it.
This book was about a 15 yr old boy named Elie, that was deported to a concentration camp, his family was seperated, he was under pressure. He was holding on to life for his father sake, he didnt want to leave him all alone.
This book had some very good points and some very disapointing points. It was almost to graphic for anyone under 18 to read, and its not because there is undesirable language, which there is, but there is parts in the book where they are talking about throwing infants into the air and shooting them.
Now, we were told to read this book as a greade, so that was ok, but HAVING to read it and WANTING to read it are two very diffrent things.
It was a good book because it showed and told what the holocaust was really all about. The book was tightly based on the holocaust, and it was relevently good that he told about the shootings and the violence to give us a panaramic view of everything that was going on.
It was almost to descriptive in the volent parts, it could have been toned down. This book is good for historians and actually is good as a teaching tool.
So, i recomend that you read this book if you already know about the violence that happened in the holocaust, that way it wont make you sick to your stomach, which it will if your not prone to stuff like this.

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Summary: Night
Review: "That night the soup tasted of corpses." This quote caught my attention because I thougth that it was to descriptive for 9th graders. I did not like this book because of quotes like this. At different points, this book made me sick to my stomache.
In this book a Jewish boy named Elie Wiesle and his family got sent to a concertation camp because Germans took over their country. The Germans did not like the Jewish religon so they sent them to the camps to work until they died. Elie and his family where put in a cattle car with a total of 80 people for 4 days. There was not enough room to lay down so the had to stand up the entire time When he got to the camp he was seperated from his mother and sister but he got to stay with his father. While they where there, they watched people get hung, burned, and beaten. They described this by saying "He baegan to beat him with an iron bar." Elie's father died before they got released and Elie survived.
At the end of this book Elie's father died but elie lived. I did not like this book because it used to many descriptive quotes like "That night the soup tasted of corses" and "He began to beat him with an iron bar." These are the things that kids my age should not be reading because it could give them bad ideas.

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Summary: Great to read when you lose hope
Review: When I read this book it made to think that how grateful each of us should be for all the blessings that we have.
The world is such a better place to live after the end of those brutality and hopefully the world is never going to see those dark days again.