Night is a short but powerful book, 2006-02-12I love reading books about real events, so I really enjoyed Night. Elie Wiesel was born in Transylvania Hungary. He was a teenager in 1944 when he and his family were taken from their home and sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz Poland. He spent a year in a concentration camp and where he witnessed people being hanged and burned to death in a furnace daily.
Wiesel survived attacks and whippings from the guards. Life was so desperate in the concentration camp that people resorted to eating snow to quench their thirst. A simple thing like the gold crown in Wiesel's mouth were of such great value, because it could be sold for money by a dentist or a guard who wanted it and ultimately got it.
Wiesel not only tried to keep himself alive, he also tried to keep his father alive too. Wiesel taught his old father how to march in place to prevent him from being attacked and killed by the guards. There are many words about the Jewish religion in Night. I thought were interesting, even though I am not Jewish. One Jewish reference is the word Kaddish. A Kaddish is a prayer praising God. It is also prayer of thanks for one's life. Another interesting concept is that of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is a branch of the Jewish religion that tries to answer the question of what is the purpose of man's life on earth. Wiesel's srong faith in these Jewish ideas kept him alive and determined to tell his story. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for Night, and his acceptance speech for it is included after the text of the book. In the speech, Wiesel said he wrote Night so that future generations would never forget the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Night is a short book and a fast read, but the experiences are very powerful and vivid. I enjoyed it very much.
Reviewed By AE31M52VLKOG6Wiesel survived attacks and whippings from the guards. Life was so desperate in the concentration camp that people resorted to eating snow to quench their thirst. A simple thing like the gold crown in Wiesel's mouth were of such great value, because it could be sold for money by a dentist or a guard who wanted it and ultimately got it.
Wiesel not only tried to keep himself alive, he also tried to keep his father alive too. Wiesel taught his old father how to march in place to prevent him from being attacked and killed by the guards. There are many words about the Jewish religion in Night. I thought were interesting, even though I am not Jewish. One Jewish reference is the word Kaddish. A Kaddish is a prayer praising God. It is also prayer of thanks for one's life. Another interesting concept is that of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is a branch of the Jewish religion that tries to answer the question of what is the purpose of man's life on earth. Wiesel's srong faith in these Jewish ideas kept him alive and determined to tell his story. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for Night, and his acceptance speech for it is included after the text of the book. In the speech, Wiesel said he wrote Night so that future generations would never forget the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Night is a short book and a fast read, but the experiences are very powerful and vivid. I enjoyed it very much.
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