Shining through the dark night four years in a Nazi concentration camp has cast upon his life, Elie Wiesel submerges from the shadows to write a moving novel about being on of the millions of Jews in World War One. When you read Night the author takes you into several camps where you witness first hand the dehumanization and mass genocide of the millions who weren't of Hitler's, "Aryan," race. Although those long years seemed to harden his soul the innocence of a fourteen year-old boy still seeps through in a place that we can only imagine in our nightmares.
The aspect of God is an enormous part of many people's lives, but what if --- Even after someone has taken all of your possessions, and the lives of your loved ones, go so far as to take your belief in God away from you too? Because that's wha
Although the Nazis were able dehumanize and take so much away from Wiesel and the other prisoners of the Holocaust they weren't able to steal away the things they truly loved. One of the most heartrending parts of the book was when one of these acts of love overcoming torture makes you realize how moving this book really is. After running without stopping from Buna to Gleiwitz all of the prisoners that had survived were crammed into one small set of barracks where many of the men were layered upon layered over each other, either being crushed, suffocated, or already dead from exhaustion. It was here that Wiesel met up with his friend Juliek and with him his most prized possession, his violin. As night began to fall over the death camp many tried to sleep on the mattresses of their dead companions whe
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