Night

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Summary: Small but packed with eye opening power.
Review: No matter how much I think I know about the horror of the Holocaust during World War II, whenever I read an unknown view my disbelief and disgust continues to grow. This especially holds true with Elie Wiezel's personal account of this terrible time in his life. Wiezel is a teenage boy who goes through the journey that we have become familiar with. His family endures the infamous Star of David armbands, Jewish ghettos, and the crowded train ride that leads them to their fate. The family is separated at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. Elie is able to stay with his father as him mother and sisters are ushered away, most likely to the crematories that are blazing and smoking of human flesh. As Elie and his father are being moved, Elie loses his faith with each step. As he watched young children being burned alive, his God was murdered forever. This is such a significant part of the book because it shows the incredible impact that only one night had on this boy. This boy who was so completely devoted to his religion and faith, but lost it all after one night in a concentration camp. After this night, staying with his father and getting food were the two most important things to Elie, in that order. As the time wore on, Elie began to find himself hoping for freedom from his father's burden. This also shows how the Holocaust tore people down until they could care about nothing. Elie Wiezel lived to tell his story and people should definitely take the opportunity to see through his eyes. It's hard to read and a difficult subject matter, but it opens up people's eyes. I have deep appreciation for this book but it would have had a larger impact if the book were longer.

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Summary: Night
Review: What happened in the Holocaust? I read the book night by Elie Weisel. I like that book because, It told us what happened and in his autobiography. This book is good because he used irony in the right spots, and the plot was easy to follow for some people but I had trouble.
To attract the reader Weisel used a lot of imagery "But we were no longer afraid of death at any rate, not to that of death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life." Well what I saw in that quote is that they had all ready given up once and they have gotten a little more spirit. That they had a chance to live but it was very small. But the weird thing was they were kind of depressed but happy.
He also uses some irony that thought. "Long Live Liberty." Cried the two adults. I think that it was their way to say we are rebelling and that their will be freedom soon enough. And this other quote had some irony too. "Where is god now?" But I think that it is mosty plot structure because I see it as irony very much. It was saying that where is god at obviously he is not with us right now because Weisel saw those people get hung and that young kid too. I read the book "Night" by Elie Weisel I did like that book because he used irony in the right spots and the plot was way easy to follow for some people.
That when they threw the babies against the walls and that they looked like walking corpse. They all together killed 6.6 million Jews and no one knew about it besides Europe.


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Summary: The Book Night Reveiw
Review: Would anyone read a depressing book? I didn't want to but I had to. The book Night really depressed me. I didn't like this book because, it depressed me. I didn't like picturing people being torched or people dieing in my mind. I also just really don't like this kind of book.
When I say this Book depresses me I mean some of the quotes depress me. One of the quotes that depress me is on page 72 of the book Night, this quote says "Eliezer...Eliezer...tell them not to hit me... I haven't done anything... why do they keep hitting me." This quote depressed me because I hadn't thought about people being hurt before and this made me think about that.
Another way this book depressed me was the imagery in it. What I mean is when it said this "for more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes, and we had to look him full in the face." (Night, 65). I used this quote because it lets you picture the person dying and makes you wish you had not just read it. When you are a person like me you have to think about it for a long time because the picture will not go out of your mind.
When I think of the imagery and the depression this book gives a person I come to the thought that I just don't like this type of book. My summery is that when I read this book about the holocaust I had to think of how they killed inanest people and I couldn't see how people would let them do this.
My conclusion is that I don't like the depression, imagery, or the book type its self. In the holocaust the Germans killed inanest people by the thousands. People dying by being hanged and people that new them had to watch. There were only 6 to 7 million people who survived the holocaust.