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Summary: A gripping tale of holocaust horror.
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I found Night to be one of the easiest books I have read. The language is simple, the action straightforward and the book itself short enough to read in one long sitting.
The story itself is something else. In hindsight one can read it and feel like asking the charecters, "How did you not see that coming? Why didn't you realize what was happening?" Young Elie Wiesel and his family could have escaped Hungary, but who could believe the atrocities of which rumors were whispered? From the point of view of one who lived through death, survived horrors that many did not, Night will make real to you all the pain and suffering of concentration camp prisoners. No, it is not an easy story to read, but is perhaps necessary to fully comprehend why the holocaust was a "night" without a dawn in sight.
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Summary: I was amazed at the author's life experiences recalled here.
Review: The book Night was a fantastic but horrifying look into the world of the Jewish concentration camps during the years of World War II. It is a shame that their are still people alive who doubt the validity of the recounting of the survivors of these concentration camps during World War II!!
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I wish I could say this is book is fiction, but the fact that the book is retelling the author's actual experience is sickening. The book is an easy read; I read the book in about 90 minutes. How horrible can humanity be? Read this book to see the depths of human wickedness. The only thing worse than the gruesome history of the concentration camps is the group of people who are trying to deny the existence of the holocaust. The horrifying events involving the holocaust need to be remembered so that we do not let this type of thing happen again. In the book, God becomes forgotten because of human suffering. This conclusion comes from the presupposition that God exists for human comfort on earth. Surely the Jew does not believe that God exists for their comfort, but because they go through suffering the main character in the book abandons his belief in God. This is an illogical decision made by the main character. Even if God existed for human comfort, surely that comfort should never come on this earth, but in the afterlife. Though the main character went through incredibly awful situations, he sold out on his beliefs. Too bad.
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Summary: Horrifying Account of the Holocaust
Review: Night is the story of Elie Wiesel's experience in the German concentration camp Auschwitz during World War II. He calls it a "nightmare-" this is an understatement. One can wake up from a nightmare. The horror Wiesel lived had no outlet. A Jew from Transylvania, Wiesel grew up with a strong religious background. He found an unlikely teacher in a man named "Moshe the Beadle." Moshe taught his pupil that man could not understand God's answers to man's questions; man could only ask God the right questions. Would Elie's time in Auschwitz destroy his budding faith? The book explores faith in a searing way. A must read for all. Ages 16 and up.
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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: Great Book!!
Review: This book is an Autobiography of a man who had many horrific experiences during the Holocaust. This man went through so many pains, including losing his whole family. This book will make you cry. I loved it; it was so well written and inspiring. It inspired me to NEVER give up at anything.
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Summary: A frightening look at our species and civilization
Review: This is simply scary.
I'm rather familiar with Transylvania, and it was shocking to see how quickly relatively normal life can be disrupted, as authorities suddenly appear and, after a very brief pause, round up huge numbers of people, deport them, and massacre them. In Germany, it took years for the National Socialist government to implement a policy of complete annihilation of the Jewish population. In Transylvania, this happened in a much shorter time. It is mind-boggling.
I think you can understand that I was in no hurry to read this book. Too depressing! But I finally did so. And I looked for silver linings in this huge cloud. Notes of hope.
I didn't find many. Sure, there were plenty of good people. But they didn't seem to make enough of a difference most of the time.
Of course, the details in the book are heartbreaking, right through to the final words, where the author looks at himself in the mirror at the end of his ordeal and sees "a corpse" looking back at him, a face he says he never forgot.
Others ask about what human beings are really like, or what God is really like, or how one ought to behave. Well, I asked myself these sorts of questions too, and I doubt that I have anything new or useful to contribute about them. Still, what most struck me about these questions was the role of authority. We are used to obeying commands. When we're told to report to a place at a certain time or face consequences, we do it. And so on. But in that time period, obeying commands was an ideal way to get oneself killed and also enable more killing. The best chance of survival was to disobey just those commands which looked most important to obey. And if one generalizes, what kind of world would we have if everyone were so suspicious of others that we rejected most of their advice and orders?
Somehow, I concluded that of all the crimes, the worst may have been coming up with rules, commands, judgments, and laws that were designed to hurt and kill others. These remove the trust we need to have both in our fellow humans and in our most cherished institutions.
As I said, I didn't find much to be happy about in this book. Still, I highly recommend it. It's well written, and I think we owe it to ourselves to read it.
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Summary: Its Real!
Review: Night, but Elie Wiesel is a touching story about life during the German Holocaust. The memoir is told by the author Elie Wiesel himself. He tells of his struggle to stay alive, and of his faith in God that was so strong, but lost along the way. Night tells of the torture the Germans went through to be an equal in society.
When reading this memoir you will have to ask yourself, if the people committing these crimes were human, and if they were human did they have any soul. It seemed they have hate built up in them that was so strong they were trained to explode and kill the Jews. This was one side of the Holocaust the main side, the dark side, the in human side.
The other side of the Holocaust which was rare was the good side, or almost normal side. The side where the people who were committing these crimes looked at themselves are realized they were wrong, and would sometimes give leeway to the Jews. The would sometimes in the dark give words of encouragement.
This book really made me think. It was touching, yet frightening to know that these cruel crimes where happening physically in the world. It was real, it is real. Some parts I had to put the book down because it was disturbing. I would tell everyone to read this book.
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Summary: Night Review
Review: This autobiographical novel tells the story of Eliezer, a teenage Jewish boy from the small Transylvanian village of Sighet. He is 17 when transported to Auschwitz, Buna, and finally Buchenwald with his father. Eliezer loses his faith, argues with God, and is sustained only by the need to care for his father. Instead of God, he is rescued by an American tank. The story is a sort of Exodus in reverse, with humiliation and death as its destination, not liberation and triumph. _Night_ was the first part of a trilogy that included _Dawn_ and _The Accident_, and for these and his other Holocaust studies Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
This book details the horrors 15-year-old Elie Wiesel went through during his death camp experience. An extremely religious teen from childhood, he struggled with his religious beliefs during the Holocaust. While struggling to keep himself and his father alive, Elie also goes through severe religious struggles along with beatings, starvation, and disease
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Summary: Expansion of knowlegde
Review: The author of this memoir had no problems teling us what really happened during the rein of the Germans. Many of the things that happened in this book were incredibly gruesome.I would have to recommend this book for a mature audience. there are crucial points in this book where you feel that if that were to happen to you, you would have reacted differently.
To give an honest opinion on this book, if i didnt have to read it in class I probabaly wouldn't have picked it up.But once I opened it I couldn't close it. I had to find out what would happen. I had begun to feel if I put the book down before it was finished i would miss something.
This book would be great to read if you want to get an eyewitness feel on what took place. Like most peope want to hear the how peoplw were treated and why they were treated this way. If thats not enough you might want to go to BlockBusters and pick up Schindlers List. This way you'll be able to see what happened and not just read it.
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