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Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a record of Elie’s time during the Holocaust and the struggles in life as an adolescent in the Auschwitz concentration camp without family, religion, or faith for life, as he is descripted by barely clinging on in a genocide period. Night demonstrates how we must have faith, even the slightest bit, or nothing is possible. Elie Wiesel, was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928 and in 1944, he and his family were thrown out of Sighet. Throughout history there have been many occurrences when a group of people believe to be superior to others and an atrocity begins. There was an occurrence in the year 793 C. E. of Viking raids. The Norse Vikings, also known as the New Barbarians, are much like the Nazis in the …show more content…

In the town lived a man named Moshe, a poor teacher who many knew. Eliezer began meeting with him to pray before Moshe was expelled for being a foreign Jew. Later on, Moshe escapes from Galicia and returns to tell the town that German police forced Jews to dig graves for themselves and were than later killed, but no one in the town believed him. When the Germans came and nothing happened people were relieved, then after the eight days of Passover two ghettos were created in the town. At first, the ghettos did not seem bad, for all they were seen as was Jewish communities, until the Hungarian police forced out families and their belongings and expelled them from Sighet. In 1944, the Hungarian police made Elizer, his family and many other Jews pile into cattle cars to take them on the long journey to the concentration camp. “A prolonged whistle pierced the air. The wheels began to grind. We are on our way” (pg. …show more content…

He was successful in making his points with his struggles in faith and existence of evil in mankind, and how astonished he was that the world could be so silent as to what was going on. While many of us have a hard time understanding what the Holocaust was like, Wiesel’s story is a gruesome insight as to what really went on during the atrocity. Many scenes are significant; one of the most significant would be the quote, “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…” (pg. 26) followed by, “In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh” (pg.

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