Night

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Summary: AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ANYONE!
Review: I don't know where to start. Wow! All I can say at this point is that this is an incredibly powerful and moving story. The fact that it is true just eats my heart out. I can't really relate to his life. I can't even begin to understand the hell he went through at the concentration camps. I don't know how those minutes would traumatize his view of time, altogether. I have absolutely no concept of enduring that kind of pain and that harsh way of suffering through the days and cold nights. I wish I could say that I could feel his wounds. But I can't, all I can have is pity, which I'm sure Mr. Wiesel doesn't want from anyone. It's been a long time since I have read such a touching book. Elie is a great writer and when good writing is combined with an extreme situation, that almost always results in an excellent book. This is by no exageration a masterpiece and it provides distinct evidence of man kind's atrocities. The cruelty is embarassing to read about. It humbles me and makes me think about what I really have to complain about. I am sorry that people are ignorant and I am sorry for the horrible treatment of the Jews among so many others. I am sorry that the attitudes of prejudice are prevalent still today. Nothing has changed in that way. Maybe now it's not against the Jews but there will always be someone who thinks his race/religion/ethnic background is superior to another. I apologize on behalf of mankind for their indecent and unacceptable treatment of other humans. I apologize for the good people who were silent. This book is so strong, so blatant and so ugly. The hatred is obvious and the evil is hideous but we have to read these books to understand why we can't let this happen again, EVER. I don't want to believe this and I barely can. I don't want to cry for all of the children, men and women who lost their lives at the hands of men who thought they were doing what was right. I think we are all guilty. Even though I, personally wasn't even alive yet, I am wron! g for all of the little things I've done or said to hurt other people. It is scary but we need to see this awful kind of thing more often to see the damage and to get rid of the torture that goes on everyday. I screamed when I read that this 15-year-old boy put through this for what? What was the reason for all of the pain? His religious convictins? Hmmmm. Good reason, right? I'd give my life for everyone in the world to read and understand this book and to make sure that this type of tragedy is never repeated. Elie Wiesel is tough. Tough as nails. And his writing in this book conveys that message. This book is a must read. -By: Rebekah Hildebrandt, Warsaw Community High School Senior.

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Summary: Highly Recomended to all readers
Review: This is a very moving and touching book! I bet whoever reads this is thinking "Oh yeah, another 'moving' and '10' review." Well, you are correct, but also inncorect. This is the best book I have ever read. I do not read that many books because I am a very slow reader, but when my English class was assigned to read this book, I took the challenge. I began reading it and realized it was the most moving and saddest book that I had ever read.

It is about the Holocaust and the author gives you a first hand "look" at what it was like to experience the Holocaust. Unlike Anne Frank's Diary, this author lived through the Holcaust and was and was able to tell us what it was like through his book.

Personally, I loved the book (as you could tell from the 10 I gave it). It made me realize the actual tragity of the Holocaust and I also learned some new things about it. Also, it was very descriptive, which helped me visualize what actually happened. I highly recommend it!!!!

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Summary: "Night" an amazingly true account!
Review: I liked this book because Elie Wiesel started the book with detailed events,but towards the end he just gave us fragments of his life and let us piece togeather his life at the concentration camps.The one thing I did not like was the descriptiveness of some of the deaths.This book was great because it was thought provoking and brought about the reality of the Holocaust which was harsh.

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Summary: A detailed book about the Holocaust
Review: Night is about the execution of the Jewish race during WWII. It goes in depth about Elie Wiesel's life in a concentration camp and how he had winessed many horrifying accounts to other people's death. When I read the book, I was both fascinated and terrified. It brought to life what I thought could only be a nightmare.

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Summary: Horrifying
Review: This book is so unbelievable. I cannot fathom life in a concntration camp. I could not put it down.

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Summary: A great book for an inside look into the life of a survivor.
Review: Night is a book that you can't put down. It isn't because it is too exciting or because you need to read it for your English class, it is because you know it is true. You know that you simply can't out down a person telling their fears and horrors while they lived through the Holocaust. You can't put it down because it is the truth.

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Summary: Fabulous Teaching Tool
Review: I require my eighth graders to read this book as part of my nonfiction work in conjunction with their studies of the Holocaust. The questions that I require them to ponder are thought provoking, and they must really examine human nature (often for the very first time). Elie was the age of my students during his period of imprisonment. Through the course of the work they examine their own relationships with their parents, their faith, their fear and pain, people who hate, and the inevitability of death. I am willing to bet that they will remember Elie Weisel for years to come. I thank him for his poignant honesty. Children need that.

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Summary: A chilling tale of destruction
Review: This is the type of book that is unable to be put down. I have never felt so terrorized at a past event in history as I have after reading Night. I feel that everybody simply must read this book as a respect to the victims of the Holocaust. A true classic.

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Summary: Powerful stuff
Review: Not a real upbeat book, but should be read. Leaves you with some images that will stay with you after you have finished the book.

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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I read this book for school and though it was a very good book because I gave someone who was in the holocaust perspectivve of the book. I would recommed this book to anyone!