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Summary: Captivating, but it has it faults
Review: I found this book to be well written, but it lacked intensity in some places. I believe it could have been a little bit more dramatic in some areas, like the death of his father for example. I recommend picking up the book if you're interested in different accounts of the Holocaust. This one is the most unique I have seen. But overall, it was very intriguing. I found myself finishing it in a day. It's hard to believe that the author could fit five years of hell into so few pages. But I think he succeeds quite well.
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Summary: Haunting...
Review: This is a book about survival; the strength of the human spirit; the depths of evil inherent in mankind; redemption; life. "Night" should be required reading in every school along with "The Diary of Anne Frank". It's a beautifully written, haunting tale that renews your faith in life and the questions. Life is not about the anwers, after all...it's about the questions. I also highly recommend Mr. Wiesel's memoirs, "All Rivers Run to the Sea" and "The Sea is Never Full". A master survivor, writer and storyteller.
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Summary: Beautiful storytelling of harrowing event
Review: In a list of my six favorite books for "The Week" magazine, I wrote: "I was about the age of the teenage narrator when I first read Night. He witnessed the ravages of the Holocaust that claimed his family and left him to grapple with guilt and spiritual doubt. I still marvel over the beauty of the storytelling."
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Summary: Night
Review: "He was still alive when i passed in front of him. His tongue was still red his eyes were not yet glazed" (Weisel,62). This quote from the book Night affected me, along with many other disturbing words.however i still enjoyed the book, and thought that he had a very good and realistic choice of words. in the rest of my paper i will go over imegery, poin tif view, and figurative language.
Weisel used a lot of imegery in the book, for example"father father wake up they're trying to throw you out of the carrage..."(Weisel,94). in this quote Elie is trying to wake his father up because the rest of the men in the carrage think hes dead and want to throw him out of the carrage.i really liked his choice of imagery to help me feel what they're going through. Weisels book was from his past experiance in the Holocost.
Point of veiw was used mostly through the whole book. "from the depths of the mirror, a courpse glazed back at me"(Weisel,109). This example was used by Weisel toward the end of the book when he was liberated. Here point of veiw was also a good example of figurative language.
"Meir, Meir, my boy! Dont you recognize me I'm your father...you're hurting me...your killing you father"(Weisel,96). This use of figurative language was a conversation between father and son. this paints a picture in my mind about how the men would do anything for a little bit of food. Even if its killing their own father.
I really liked the book Night and thought that Weisel was a very good author. i also liked how he never held anything back. he always explained details to their fullest. Weisels words seemed more real because he had actually experianced the Holocaust. there were 6.6 million jews that wer killed in the Holocaust and Elie happend to be one that did survive. the book Night is a 109 pagged memory from Elie Weisel that goes through his horrifiying experience in the Holocaust.
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Summary: Night
Review: Has anyone ever wondered what the holocast was about? Well the book Night will help anyone understand what it was like to live throught the Holocaust. I liked this book because of the irony, figurative language, and the foreshadowing.
The irony, to me was very effective because, when i thought something was going to happen, it usally never did. An example of the irony is: "then i remebered sonethind else: his son had seen him losing ground, limping, staggering back to the rear of the column. He had seen him. And he had continued to run in front, letting the distance between the grow gretter." (Weisel, 87) In this quote, one of Elie's friends had ran withhim and he had died. But he did not realize that he had left his father because he was a burden to his son.
The figurative Language was very effective. Weisel creassted pictures in my mind asd i read. "They brought him a box. Lie down on it. On your Stomach! I obeyed. Then i was aware of nothig but the strokes of the whip." (Weisel, 55.) Elie got in trouble because he ahd saw one of the Kapoes having sexual interations, with on of the girls at the camp. In that quote it created a picture in of Elie getting whiped.
"Fire! I can see Fire! I can see a fire! there was a moments panic. Who was it who cried ou? It was Madame Schachter." (Weisel, 22) This is an example of foreshodowing. Madame Schachter saw fire, but there was nothing there. Then when they got to the camps there was the fire from the creamatory. This si effective becasue it tells what hppens later in the book.
In Elis Weisel's book night i like the irony, Figurativer Language and the Foreshadowing. I like the book because it is a real life story of how one personmad it throught the Holocaust. During the Holocaust over 6.6 million people died. That is 7,ooo times the amount of people i have in my town. I fourteen and i could not imagin going throught what he went through. I recomend this book to anyone that is interested in experiencing what Eile Weisel went through in the Holocaust.
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Summary: Stark and Powerful but....
Review: I am embarrassed to admit that "Night" did not register strongly with me. Since most of us know the plot, this reviewer won't retell it. Author Wiesel writes powerfully of his families' abduction by the Nazis and quick separation from his mother and sister in concentration camp. We feel earnestly for he and his father to survive against the "system" in captivity. Tragically, certain fellow prisoners appear to be as dangerous as the guards are. As they do in the military, rumors bearing false hope abound. "Every man for himself" selfishness also abounds, most graphically in the instance of the young man who falls out of step with his own father to avoid punishment. We sympathize with those who second-guess themselves for not escaping the Nazis early in the War, or not emigrating to Palestine. The main problem with "Night" is that it's all too brief. The ending happens far too soon, almost as if concentration camp were a terrible weekend, a bad dream, perfectly brutal but quickly dispensed with. This reviewer believes that the Holocaust is not done justice by a 109-page paperback. It demands more detail, more retelling, more names, more places, more faces and indeed-more suffering. So many of us, this reviewer included, remain ignorant of the Holocaust and absent greater detail, stand to remain that way. At the risk of sounding petty, a map would assist in the process. I honestly would like to know where Mr. Weisel suffered. One result of my reading of "Night" is that I intend to scroll through amazon[.com] for other (retellings) of the Holocaust. Hopefully I will find some that deal with this issue the greater depth, volume and detail it deserves.
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Summary: Should be required reading
Review: This book should be required reading in any class that even remotley covers the issue of the Holocaust. Wiesel offers insight into the absolute horror that was this terrible period of history. He brings you into the world he experienced and almost makes you feel as if you were there and thankful that you were not. However, I say "almost." There is no way any of us could understand what he and those millions of others experienced. Not one of them came out alive. Even those who did not perish had their lives taken from them. And not even the most powerful of earthly judges could give it back to them. The stories of fathers and sons fighting over bread. Of fathers and sons having no will to care if the other lived or died. Of husbands looking at their wives for the final time and not having the benefit of knowing that it would be the last time. Being robbed of their last chance to simply say goodbye. If you think you are having a bad day or life all together, take the little time it requires to read this book. I doubt you will still feel the same way afterward.
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Summary: "Night" as reviewed by beautiful Kayle Taylor ;)
Review: The book Night by Elie Wiesel was based upon true facts of the Holocaust. The book was talking about time im the later 1930s and mid 1940s. This book was OK. If my teacher wouldnt have made us read it than I wouldnt have read it. I didn't like how the Jews got treated, and all the mean things that they got said to them. That made me sad. I also didnt like some of the things that Elie had said. I didnt like how he was always talking about God, and the faith they had lost or gained in him. We--being readers--didnt care. Unless we're God freaks. The setting bothered me. Not that it was the same place every time, but just because it wasn't as interesting as if they wouldve or couldve added or changed a little bit of it. They didnt need more detail because the detail was actually good. That was probabally the best part of the book. This book was an biography by Elie Wiesel, and he did a good job. If you are interested in historical books, than I would reccomend this book. But if you like the new-aage crazy stuff, than dont bother. It is kind of hard to follow along unless you're really interested. Thanks for your time in reading this. SORRY MRS. H--I'LL HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO USE A LATE VOUCHER!!
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Summary: Superb
Review: I found Elie's autobiography superb. His eye-opening reality was an excellent comeback to the skeptics. To use the words "boring stuff" would be an ignorant and ridiculous look at the novel. For those who haven't thoroughly looked at the events of Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, and the other sites of Hitlar's evil. To find this horrific history mild would be ignorant. This book shows the dehumanization and inhumane treatment of the prisoners beat around like livestock by the Kapos (German officers). I strongly recommend this book if you enjoy or want to be enlightened by this piece of WWII history. You will not be able to put this empowering book down, trust me. - N.Z.
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Summary: An Emotion of a Book
Review: I was forced to read this book in my sophomore english class, and I'm glad I was. Night is a very emotional book. It's based on a true story and is written by the man who experienced the Holocaust first hand. I was hooked on it. It explains the Holocaust from a teenager's experience. I would definately recommend this book to people who are interested in history and who like a real tear jerker.
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