Night
Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, and was still a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Buchenwald. His father was a prominent leader in the Sighet Jewish community, and even he doubted the stories of atrocity that Moshe told. Following WWII, he moved to Paris, where he took up French, and eventually his journalism career led him to Israel. After a decade, he finally settled in the United States, where he was soon reunited with his sister, who had been living in Canada. Night is the story of Elie WieselÕs life, and also a profound portraiture of the Jewish Holocaust during World-War II. He received the Nobel Piece Prize in 1986 and has written a total of 21 books, this being his first. WieselÕs primary intention in Night is to accurately portray the atrocities of the World-War II holocaust, and to impose such a moving image on the reader (and society), that something this horrible must be prevented at all costs in the future. He accomplishes this by excellent narration of events, the portrayal of charactersÕ feelings and emotions, and also adds a twist with a large amount of foreshadowing. The combination of these literary methods and
Elie Wiesel does an excellent job, not only telling a story, but achieving his purpose of this book as well. By using superb narration of people and events, his ability to recreate emotions and feelings in the reader, and foreshadowing, he creates almost of feeling of emptiness in his readers, to induce only a fraction of the pain that was borne by the prisoners of the Nazis during World-War II. His work also serves the purpose of general education about the holocaust, which is what society must do in order to avoid the repetition of history. Wiesel uses outstanding literary tools to educate and expose his readers to the holocaust to that, beyond all means, this horrible atrocity against humanity never happens again. The author also applies quite a bit of foreshadowing in Night not only to spice up the plot, but as another intellectual additive to the story to get readers to think a little deeper. The first, most obvious, foreshadowing is by Moshe the Beadle, the Rabbi in Sighet. Moshe was deported earlier than the WieselÕs because he was a foreign Jew, and miraculously escaped death because he suffered a mere leg injury and played dead. Later, he returns to Sighet and warns the Jews (still living in freedom there) to get out to safety before it is too late. Nearly everyone shrugs him off, as the Russian defeat of the Nazis is apparently very near, and no immediate danger is visible. This not only is extremely ironic (as these very same Jews would be deported to Auschwitz only months later), but it also again makes the reader think deeper into the meaning of the book. Other foresha
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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