Wiesel's brilliant style of writing Night is what makes the book so incredibly effective to the reader. It is the most personal account of the most personal subject in recent history. Wiesel calls the book a "deposition." It cannot be classified as a memoir because technically he didn't write the book with him as the narrator. However, Wiesel has confirmed that with the exception of a few details, it was his personal account of his experiences during the holocaust. These personal accounts such as Wiesel's are some of the most important pieces of literature in twentieth century history and particularly important to the history of western civilization. Night is a book that opens our eye to the fact that at as few as 60 years ago, in an age which was one would consider the world and especially Europe civilized, the largest genocide known to man was taking place. Not only this, but the rest of the world knew exactly what was going on inside these concentration camps a

One of the things that makes Night an absolutely terrifying account to the reader is that it deals with the observations and feelings of one survivor. When an author writes something to the tune of "the Nazis burned children and babies," it simply doesn't have the same effect on the reader as, "A lorry drew up to the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it-saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames"(p.30). How the reader can feel one person's emotions along with him is what makes Night such a breathtaking account of the holocaust. It also makes one believe the events that took place even though it is hard to imagine it.

This shows how after forced separation from their material possessions, are also soon stripped of non-material possessions: morality, love, humanity, and above all compassion.

This book strikes me as the most personal account of the Holocaust I've ever encountered. It makes one feel as though you were right along there. While I was reading the book it was me being whipped on that crate and my father being beaten by the Kapo. Wiesel opens the reader's eyes not to the event that was the Holocaust but to the emotions that he felt and nothing tells a better story. The fact that it was written in the first person simply accentuates these emotions-makes them that more personal and believable. Because it is a personal account of the occurrences it translates well into the readers mind and the readers emotions. The work, to say it simply, is brilliant. The variance of all the characters within the different groups shows that the people dying and the people killing were human beings. We think of the Nazis as a group as inhuman monsters. Wiesel gives us accounts of fair and good-hearted Germans along with cruel and hateful Jews. The absolute humanity of his story in contrast with the loss of humanity in the Holocaust is heart breaking to say the least.

I predominate theme through out the book is the death of God. There is a sharp contrast in the narrator's religious beliefs at the beginning of the deposition and the end. In the beginning Eliezer is described as being very religious, a devout Jew. He was farther in his studies than most others his age. He says, "During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the temple"(1). Relatively close to the beginning of the book during the first relocation we see symbolism of the narrator's loss of faith. He says "Oh God, Lord of the Universe, take pity upon us in Thy great

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