Night Book Report Essay

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Night The novel Night gives us first-hand information on what happened during the Holocaust of the Second World War. It is being told Elie Wiesel or Eliezer in the book on his experiences, and horrible atrocities that he witnessed while in the different concentration camps that they sent him too. The central theme of Night is Elie Wiesel expressing that during his time in the Auschwitz camp it was like an endless darkness. The novel starts out when Eliezer then a twelve-year old boy living in a Transylvanian town named Sighet recently annexed to Hungary. He lives in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish tradition and law, his family consists of his mother, father, two older sisters and his younger sister. Eliezer studies…show more content…
What he sees really plays a major role of his psyche, and how he begins to treat others. As the novel gets closer and closer to its end Eliezer’s whole attitude toward his father changes, where in the beginning he wants to stick to his father for safety and comfort, near the end he tries to distance himself from his father thinking that sticking with him is cutting his chance of survive. So he faces the hard reality of wanting to leave his father for dead just so he can live. One point in the novel that Elie says that will stay with him is on how he didn’t try to help his father when he was calling him to help him when he was being beaten by other prisoners. In the novel Night Elie Wiesel shares his persona memories of the Holocaust. In which he experienced the loss of friends, and family. The evil caused by the Germans against the Jews severely shattered Elie’s hope and belief in the goodness of human beings. Although Elie retained his views throughout his life, the novel Night shows that Wiesel was able to restore his faith in others. At the end of the novel Wiesel states that the image of himself that he saw in the mirror compelled him to keep moving forward in life and to resist the impulses of
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