Night

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Summary: Slim novel of terrifying power
Review: Elie Wiesel's "Night" is -- as the NY Times described it -- a slim novel of terrifying power.

I had visited Dachau a few years ago, and it was a very moving experience. Barracks, furnaces, courtyard, and the iron gate with the words in German "Work Will Set You Free" -- same as in Wiesel's description of Auschwitz.

This book provides a petrifying 1st hand 1st person of a 15 year old Jewish Hungarian from the ghettos, deportation, labor camps, and Auschwitz, and "selection". Horror upon numbing horror climaxing in the witnessing of the death of his father.

Extremely disturbing...but mandatory reading so that "Never again..."

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Summary: Night
Review: The book is trilling and exciting and each time you stop reading it you want to read more of and keep going. I would recommend the book to people who want to read something catchy and powerful. The author's style of writing is so penetrating and piercing to your mind and soul.

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Summary: A Masterpiece in Holocaust Literature
Review: If I had a list of required reading for the entire human population, Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, "Night", would be at the top of the list.

Reaching back into his Nazi-tormented childhood, Wiesel utilizes a rare literary talent: the ability to convey a child's impressions and experiences during one of the darkest times in our history through the wisdom of an adult's eyes. His unique power of words, combined with his incredible courage and fierce determination, continue to amaze me each time I read this book.

To one who has never read an autobiography on the Holocaust: brace yourself. To one who considers her or himself to be an authority on the Holocaust: brace yourself. For what is contained in these pages is like nothing you have seen nor read, and it is nothing like you will ever see nor read again.

I won't describe the details of "Night" -- not for fear of negatively impacting the experience first-time readers will have when they take this book into their hands -- but out of respect for the realization that I am simply incapable of doing so. It is a journey that each reader must take on her or his own.

For those of us lucky enough to never have experienced the horrific tragedy that was the Holocaust, it is the very least that we can do.

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Summary: A great book
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel is one of the best books I have ever read. It is such a dramatic story of one 15 year old boy's will to survive in a concentration camp. He lost his mother and his sister but he would not give up. This young boy holds on to his father and tries to not lose him. All through the story the young boy survived with little food and water. All around him people were dying and beaten. The boy himself was beaten many times, but that did not stop him. I recommend this book to everyone. It is such a good story, and it tells what really happened in the dark time of the Holocaust.

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Summary: The Night
Review: The Night had an impact on me. It brings out just how horrible
the life of Jews back then was. Knowing that it was true made
you have a feeling of "you must know what is going to happen
next". While reading the book I realized that I couldn't put it
down and the end just made you want to know more. The book had
non-stop action that makes you cringe with excitement. The book
was also a little sad with some of the deaths of people that
were close or told their story about there family. I also
though the way they tied the story in with the way his life was
in the future of the story when he was older and out of the
concentration camps. I would recommend this book to anyone who
wants something to read when you are bored or just need some
excitement in your life. This book made me think differently
about life back then and how much people must have suffured.
Personally when I received this book I thought it was going to
be long and boring about general life of one boy but it turned
out to be one of the best books I have read in a while. I would
rate this book four stars out of five and definitely request
anyone to read this for any reason.

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Summary: What i thought of Night by Elie Wiesel
Review: I read Night by Elie Wiesel and I thought that it was a very touching book. This was a powerful story that showed you what it was like in the life of Elie Wiesel when he was in the Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. It made me appreciate everything I have more. Lately I've been really interested in the history of the Holocaust.I read this book because we had read a little bit of it in my english class.

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Summary: unforgettable story
Review: Night by Elie Wiesel was the great book of the real life stories of the holocaust. It showed the life of a boy who goes with little food and water each day and survives in a concentration camp,and how he had to watch his family and hundreds of people die each day. He is stuck with the memories of his family being killed and the lives of many innocent people who were killed. He show's how the Jews and other minorities were not treated like human's In these camps. He makes it feel like you're there with him and feel his pain. He also shows why this can never happen again.

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Summary: if you have any lingering illusions about a god, say bye bye
Review: this book should destroy any dangerous illusions we might have had about man's innate goodness, a loving god pulling the strings of human history, the reality of ideology, etc. the ideals of the enlightenment are quite over and done with, and wiesel's gut wrenching account of the event which basically erased any sense to his life and took his family from him along with his adolescent delusions is enough to make even the most convinced believer take a look or two at their oh so naive belief that god is in his heaven and all is right with the world. it is indeed sad, but certainly necessary and fundamental reading for those who actually believe that "everything happens for a reason". a must read

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Summary: Whether Fact or Fiction, a Profoundly Moral Work
Review: Some people say that Wiesel's NIGHT is fiction; others, that it is a factual memoir. Whichever side is right, what matters to me as a reader is that NIGHT is a profoundly moral work about surviving inhuman conditions, and that it is both powerful and superbly written.

I am reminded of two other great concentration camp works -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn's ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH and Victor Frankl's MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING -- which it resembles. Where Wiesel differs is in his ability to depict Eliezer's central dilemma: whether to survive at all costs, or risk his own survival by giving aid to his father, who is less able to stand up to the torments of everyday life in the camps. There is a beautiful image of the prisoners' forced move from Buna to Gleiwicz when another son leaves his father in the lurch while Eliezer does his utmost to help his. When his father dies of dysentery shortly before liberation, the book comes to an end quickly because outside the memory of that moral struggle, there was nothing but undiscriminated pain.

Throughout this short book, the small acts of kindness come unexpectedly and stand out like so many diamonds in a vast mountain of pitch.

Life is full of moral choices, and we don't always make the right decisions. Wiesel brings home the point that trying to make the right choice is always important. Perhaps that is what ultimately separates us from the SS and camp kapos.

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Summary: What a great book
Review: I read the book Night by Elie Wiesel. The book is very touching and shows a boys strength to keep himself and his father alive even though he knows that his mother and sister are gone. He goes through so many horrible things that it is amazing that he survived. At the age of fifteen he had been treated as an adult and was as tattered if not more worn then his elders. The book Night is the second Holocaust book that I have read. It is my favorite book. It shows you how far the society has come, and we should all be thankful for who we are and that the war is over.