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Summary: Reality and humanity at their worst.
Review: "Night" may be one of the hardest books you will ever read. Nobody can top reality. The dreadfulness, terror and shock that originate in the imagination of horror novelists can never begin to compare to the real events that happened during World War II, in a time that is widely referred to as the Holocaust.
"Night" is about the true and terrifying events that Eli Wiesel has gone through during those days. Inside, you are going to meet the young Elie Wiesel, born in the town of Sighet, Romania, presumably into a good life. Then you'll meet the phenomenon of denial among the Jewish people; so many had never believed the reports about the horrible activities of the Germans and of the other European nations during the War - until it became their fate as well. This pitiful and destructive denial continues even while being transferred like cattle to concentration camps, through the first revelations of brutal and barbaric behavior amid the Jews themselves in the face of inhumane conditions. Their eyes are finally opened only in front of the gates of hell - the crematoriums of Auschwitz. Having survived the selections there, Wiesel continues to live on and witnesses atrocities, loss, immense pain and sadness in different concentration and death camps, and comes to questioning everything he has ever learned in his short life to that point. ============================================================= Why would you want to spend your time reading something that horrible? You probably have general information about the atrocities that took place in those cursed days; having seen films like "The Schindler's List" you have an idea about how it was like. Having seen documentaries with interviews of survivors might add some more knowledge to your overall concept about what it was like. Reading books about it is the next step. There is always something new that a person hasn't heard of, probably would never have imagined and that cannot be conveyed via the visual media. Furthermore, reading a book is quite different from seeing a film in the sense that one gets the chance to crawl into the mind of a person that has been through this unprecedented ordeal. What one may discover about human nature - both of the murderers and their victims - may be extremely upsetting and difficult to grasp. Why is it important to read this book and others like it? To remember that it happened and to do as much as anyone can do to never let it happen again. ============================================================= In the end of the last paragraph I almost added, "to pray to God it would never happen again", but then again I remembered how God was awfully quite as it was all taking place. I don't know where God was during those times, but Wiesel gives his answer that comes from within, while witnessing the hanging of a young boy: "Where is He? Here He is - He is hanging here on the gallows..." Yes, in the aftermath of the Holocaust there was a sweeping faith crisis; the concept of God and the belief in mighty powers became a problem among the Jewish people, and as I've learned during my latest trip, among many Europeans as well. How could He let it happen? Why? Where was He? And ultimately, should the people that suffered to an unparalleled extent forgive Him? Can they? Who should they blame? ============================================================= In this shocking account you will not find the answers for these questions. The conclusion you may draw in the end of the day is that it's up to us to protect ourselves. We can trust ourselves - and ourselves only - in the fight against the forces that wish to destroy us.
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Summary: Night
Review: This memoir demonstrated the cruelty of the Holocaust. Millions of Jews were killed. This autobiography is told by Elie Wiesel, a Jew who lived in Sighet, Hungary. He depicts his experiences moving from one concentration camp to another, his struggle with his faith, and survival. At the end he tells of the Jew's freedom from the concentration camp by the Red Army. He was at Buna. What kept Elie alive was his father, who he refused to leave. Overall, a very short and concise book. But it still tells the horrors of the Holocaust and is a great history guide. I liked it because it wasn't too wordy, but it still served its purpose to remind us all of history.
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Summary: Night Review
Review: This book was absolutely without a doubt exceptional! I liked the book from the first word to the last word and all points in between. I didn't dislike anything about the book. This book was very well-written and told very descriptive details about the daily events that occured during those unforgettable and tragic years of Elie's life. He painted a picture so vividly to where you was right along with him witnessing murders and beatings. If I was Elie's age, I don't think that I could have survived. Being away from my family was probably the most saddest part for him. I think Elie's purpose of publishing this book was to let people know what really happened during the Halocaust giving from a perspective of a witness. The most memorable part was when his father spoke his last words. That part was so sad. Elie possessed the courage and strength to survive.
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Summary: Rainette
Review: The book was ok, I like the way it was getting into the way things were back then. It made me think about how hard it would have been to live. I don't think I would have been able to do it. I would have had a different but that is about it. The ending was not as realistic as the the first part.I would change the end to make it more heartfelt. The purpose of publishing the book was to inform people how he way life was and the way people was being treated.My most memorable part of the whole book is how mean the people were and the feelings that people had for each other. There was no really big part that I liked liked but I can assure you that I will never forget this book and all the details.
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Summary: Massacre of the Jews
Review: I like the book because it tells us what kind of a man that hitler was and how the jews had to live for 6 years. The jews didn't needed to be treated like that because they were humans just like everyone else. Hitler was a cruel and sick man for his doings. This is a book that everyone should read. The part that i remember the most is when IDEK moved all the jews out of the warehouse so he could have sex with a girl.
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Summary: english 12
Review: What I like most about the book is how when it came to tell what was happening it got down to specific details and why it happened to them.Plus it could get emotional because it really occurried.There was nothing that made me dislike the book cause it kept you at the edge of your seat.
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Summary: Unreasonable Deaths
Review: The book Night in my opinion had a lot of uncalled for deaths, but as far as what I liked about it, I would have to say that I liked how Elie went about tellin people how everything happened in the consentration camps the way he seen it. It was very detailed. Again, to mention that the book was very detailed on how some of the SS men would kill the Jews. Personally I would not change anything about the book because that is like changing how one person feels about what they lived through, and it wouldn't be right. I believe that Elie's purpose for publishing this book was to let people know what really went on inside the camps, and to let people know that it wasn't fictional that it really did happen. There was one part that stuck out to me the most throughout the whole story and that was when Elie had been sent to the hospital and he did not want to leave simply because he was laying on white sheets. To him that was something wonderful seeing as how he had been sleeping on wooden planks. Who would have thought something as plain as sheets would bring fulfillment to anyone.
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Summary: Night of Bundy's thoughts
Review: I liked this book quite a bit. It was fun to read. I learned a lot about the camps that they made Jews go to. I didn't like how people got treated back then, why would someone torture someone else of the same race as much as Hitler did. I would change as much as I could but back then I couldn't really do a thing, or else I would have been killed for not listening. Elie wanted people to know what happened in these camps and he wanted people to know what type of torture Jews had to go through. The part that I most remember about is when Elie was whipped over a box because he found the guard and the little girl in the ware house, what they went through was terrible but over all I'm glad Elie survived to write this book, I very much liked it.
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Summary: Night Review 12
Review: The thing I liked about the book the most, was the way Elie brought the Holacaust to life. It was like you were actually there. I thought it was very well said and told. Their wasn't much I disliked about the book, overall it was very good, however the ending could of been better. The main thing I would change about the whole book would be the ending. I didn't approve of how the father just died and how Elie and his father's relationship was when he passed. I would say Elie's purpose for publishing the book would be to let people know that weren't around at the time or who did not have to go through the camp, actually how it felt, their feelings, thoughts, pain and suffering and to visialize what was going on with Elie's situation. My most memorable part in the book Night, was towards the beginning of the book when Elie and his family were forced out of their house and each family memeber(boy and girl) were separated. Just thinking about being seperated from any of my family would terrify me, I can't imagine how Elie, his sister and parents felt.
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Summary: Powerful, yet not an everyday book.
Review: The Book night by Elie Wiesel is very powerful. I liked how it really gave a true around about his life being a Jew during the Second World War. You can really feel emotion from reading his accounts while he was living in a Concentration camp. What I did not like about the book, it was very short, it could of given more detail to his accounts. The details it does give are a lot of times important of the issue. If I would change the book in anyway, I would give more detail on how he felt on a daily basis. The book would be longer giving a lot more detail on how things look, felt, and his full emotions. I think Elie published this book to let people know about the horrible thing called the Holocaust really was. Just an innocent little boy was put through something so hellish, more people could never imagine. My most memorable part of the book was when they were riding on the cattle trains to the death camp. People had no idea what was to come. The women screaming out the fire! She knew it what was to come. Over all, it's not a bad book. Before you read it, be ready for true accounts of this horrible time in World history and set your emotions.
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