Night

Night is an autobiographical novella written by Elie Wiesel a young jewish boy who tells of his experiences during the Holocaust. Elie is from the small town of Sighet, Transylvania. This book begins in late 1941 and chronicles Elie's life through the end of the war in 1945.He had two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice Wiesel and a younger sister, Tzipora Wiesel. Elie spoke many languages including Hungarian, Romanian, German and he grew up

speaking Yiddish. At the beginning of the book Elie has a very strong faith in God and the Jewish religion, but this faith is tested when he is moved from his small town by the Nazi's. Elie has to deal with the death of his family, the death of his, innocence and the death of his God at the very young age of fifteen. He tells us of the horrors of the concentration camp, starvation, beatings, torture, illness, and hard labor. He comes to question how God could let this happen and to redefine the existence of God in the concentration camp. In 1944, when Elie was fifteen years old, him, his parents and younger sister were taken to Auschwitz. There him and his father were separated from his mother and small sister.

Within a year his father and him had been moved to several different

concentration camps such as Buna, Gleiwitz, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He tried his best to stay with his father every time they were moved. His father and him watched out for each other, till his father's death in 1945.

The Holocaust all began because Hitler blamed the Jews for Germanys defeat in World War 1. He also blamed the Jews for all the problems Germany had at the time such as poverty, unemployment, starvation and disease. In early 1942, Hitler decided to carry out what he called "The Final Solution," which he hoped would bring an end to the Jewish population. He ordered millions of European Jews to be arrested and deported to special camps. This is how concentration camps became death camps.

In Night, the description, settings, presentation of exciting incidents and sadness was outstanding. Language was good. Elie wrote everything he saw and he heard and everything was straightforward. The plot of this book was good, as there was no false leads, no unexpected turns and no misleading information. Elie Wiesel was the main character and narrator of this book. The story takes place in many concentration camps or Europe. Elie saw his family, friends and other Jews fellows degraded and murdered. He also said that his God to whom he was devoted, was also murdered by Nasiz. His memories of the

nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?

The book also shows us how his innocence was quickly lost, and how fast he

grown up. The things that were happening there, he can't believe that. He feels that he might be dreaming. The author's thesis and reason for writing this book is quite clear. He wanted this world to know what he saw and experienced when he was a young boy and how it coloured his life forever. He lost his entire family. "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never (Night,Ch. 3, Pg. 32) Throughout the book, there's a dark feeling of hopelessness and unreality. It seems difficult to believe that anyone could be so vile so utterly devoid of consicience as to send million of Jews to their deaths. But that was all true, the characters were real in this novel. Elie told us how difficult life was there, as a prisnor.The novel Night, has had much sociological significance on society. Night is Wiesel's attempt to trace

the dissolution of the Jewish community in Sighet, the ghettoes, deportations,

concentration camps, crematoriums, death marches, and, finally, liberation.

In Night Wiesel uses his experiences to give humanity an in depth look at how

horrific the German occupation was. The holocaust brought many social