Night

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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.

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: The book Night was reccommended to me by a friend who made it seem absolutely intriguing. I started into the book with the expectation that I'd be blown away, but at the end of the book I was slightly dissappointed.
The book night is an account of the authors experiences during the Holocaust. I personally found the novel very shallow and not indepth. The characters were just touched upon briefly without enough background or knowledge of their true personalities or identities. For me a video shown in a History class would be the comparison to this book. It told the same tragic stories of Nazi Germany that are easily recognizable by many of us. If you're looking for a quick, easyread book that doesn't create much thought then this would be the book for you. But if you're like me and enjoy books with more of a plot then I reccommend you skip over this peice and move on to a more advanced novel.

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Summary: short and powerful
Review: Night is defintely one of the most powerful books I have ever read. It's fairly short but the level of detail given in Night really show what the Holocaust was really like for those who went through it. It's definitly something that everyone should read because it shows how far people are willing to take their hate against others.

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Summary: Chilling-but it needed to be written
Review: The horrors of the Holocaust are gone, thankfully, but they cannot be forgotten, especially with the scourge of some current events. Elie has done well by writing about the horrors- the evil doctor who decided who got burned up, the fights for food, the executions that the Jews were forced to watch, and most tragically, the death of Elie's father-which he missed because they took him away. It chills you to the bone, but you must read it; the horrors of the Holocaust cannot be forgotten.

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Summary: Stunned
Review: This book left me stunned. People talk a lot of The Diary of Anne Frank, but this book gives more of an overall view of the situation because it was writeen after the fact. This book will amaze you. I often think that people who still hold on to racist and prejudice feelings for any group should read this book and see through the eyes of someone who lived this terrifying hell. I keep hoping this book will change their minds.

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Summary: Really, really powerful
Review: NIGHT is the dramatic story of Wiesel and his family who are first imprisioned in a ghetto, and then sent to concentration camps, where they are split up for good. This story is dark, and deals with very mature material. Easy to read, but far from easy to accept, I think that NIGHT is a book that everyone should read at some point in his or her life.

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Summary: My Life will Never Be the Same
Review: The title of this book says it all. In one night after reading this book, my whole out look has changed. I am forever grateful to the honorable Elie Wiesel for having the courage and strength to relive and narrarate his experience, not only as a witness but as a participant of the Holocaust, providing his readers his indelible message through the masterpiece of his manuscript. In this somber and haunting tale, Mr. Wiesel captured my attention, for better or worse. As he described his heart pounding in moments of great terror, I too felt my heart pounding. I could feel his suspense, his anguish, his pain, his confusion, his contempt, and his fear. As an adult and a mother, I felt nauseous with his descriptions of the victims, the children, and ached and hoped for the longing of a reunification with his family members, hoping some miracle would stop this nightmare of reality. Oh, I so longed for him to reunify with his mother and his sister, so that he could go home and live a life that so many of us take for granted, nowadays. As I kept reading, I would find myself wondering and asking God, Why? Why? Why? I felt relieved to know that Mr. Wiesel too questioned God, felt anger towards God, but at the same time showed his respect towards God. Such ambivalence...such a real person...who experienced a myriad of emotions, feelings, and a whirlwind of despair in a surreal circumstance. I kept asking myself if what I was reading was "real" or "surreal" questioning myself, how could this happen? Why did this happen? Why didn't anyone stop it from happening? I felt heart-sick for Mr. Wiesel and all of the other prisoners. Mr. Wiesel's story is terrifying but a constant reminder that if we don't learn our history, we are bound to repeat it. I personally believe this book should be in every person's bookcase and taught everywhere, so that this vile display of what humans can do to each other is not forgotten and not repeated or ignored. By Mr. Wiesel surviving this torment, he is a living testament that the human spirit is strong, courageous and can triumph even with only a glimmer of hope in the midst of such horrific darkness. There is no excuse to be a victim. We are all capable of being survivors. The human mind is a terrible thing to waste. Because of Mr. Wiesel's account, I will never look at my life in the same spoiled and complacement way that I once did a night ago. I have changed. I now have respect for the breath that I breathe. I now have respect for the opportunites bestowed upon me. Living in this lifetime is a gift. Things that were so-called important to me yesterday are no longer. The definition of life is love, breathing, and the art of literacy. God bless Mr. Wiesel for giving his readers the gift of his life through his words...Thank you God for using Mr. Wiesel as an instrument to spread the word of the importance of life and for giving us his testimony of his Holocaust experience...Mr. Wiesel's book will leave an indelible mark on the human soul and should be read and shared with as many who are open to hear his important and significant message of life...Leticia Araujo Perez, author

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Summary: 100 Powerful Pages
Review: The people who rate this book badly because of its disturbing content seem to be missing both the point of the novel and the point of the whole amazon.com rating system. You do not rate a book from one to five stars on the basis of how "peaceful," "beneviolent," or "pleasant" the nature of the story itself is! I think most people realize that but I just wanted to mention it anyway - cause it is funny to see people who rate books like this 1-star because it dealt with "bad" things and therefore must be a "bad" book.
Night is a tremendously important and very readable book. It is the story of a teenage boy's imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, including Auchewitz. Night raises many issues in the context of the Holocaust. The central idea is probably the dubiousness of God: how, after all, could any God worth the name oversee such atrocities? But there are many sub-dilemmas as well, thought provoking in their own rights. Read it and find out.
I don't want to take the power out of Night at all, but I'll also say that it seems like a lot of people think that this is a word-by-word factual account of Elie Wiesel's Holocaust experience. In fact, this book is classified as "autobiography" - when it is actually not. Certainly there is a huge element of fact in Night, and the actuality of the Holocaust was as bad if not worse than is presented in this book are in the book. Think of a story similar to Eliezer's happening six million times over and you will understand the Holocaust had a scope and magnitude that cannot be contained in one book. But remember that Night is a novel.