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I have read the novel Night several times from different perspectives, yet every time, it moves me. It’s as if I skipped a chapter the other times I read it. This would be my seventh time reading this book in the last 7 years, of which I read it mostly through a teacher’s eye.
This book starts out in the town of Sighet where our author Elie Wiesel lives with his family. Shortly into the novel they are taken from their home to the well-known concentration camp Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. ...more
This book starts out in the town of Sighet where our author Elie Wiesel lives with his family. Shortly into the novel they are taken from their home to the well-known concentration camp Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald. ...more
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Night by Elsie Wiesel *****
Night is the telling of real life happenings told by the author, Elie Wiesel, about his experiences inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in Austria. Wiesel and his family are taken from their home in the middle of the night, brought to Auschwitz, and treated with brutality. The book shares an account of the inner workings of this concentration camp, from arrival to release, Wiesel encounters pain, fear, loss and is surrounded by torture and death. The book itse ...more
Night by Elsie Wiesel *****
Night is the telling of real life happenings told by the author, Elie Wiesel, about his experiences inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in Austria. Wiesel and his family are taken from their home in the middle of the night, brought to Auschwitz, and treated with brutality. The book shares an account of the inner workings of this concentration camp, from arrival to release, Wiesel encounters pain, fear, loss and is surrounded by torture and death. The book itse ...more
While this book does not have the details and gore that other books by Holocaust survivors sometimes have, Wiesel tells his story in a straightforward fashion without excessive anger towards his oppressors and without melodrama about his situation. To me, his style is what makes the book work and pulls readers into the narrative. He could tell us of the horrors he saw, but would words really do them justice? Can someone who hasn't lived through that really imagine what he and others went through
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This book is an extraordinary first person account of a survivor’s experiences of being held in a concentration camp during World War 2. His story depicts a life where a constant fear of death is prevalent through experiences of abuse and starvation (and many other atrocities) where his concern of never seeing his father again was the source of an anxiety experienced every single time they were separated for even the shortest moment. Though graphic and descriptive, the story is one of courage an
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The memories of a young boy, who declares himself a man of 18 to stay with his father, haunt him still today almost seven decades later—as they will any human with empathy while reading the vision of horror about the ghettos, concentration camps, cattle cars, and the march to death presented by Elie Wiesel in his book, Night. The appalling treatment of human beings by the SS during the Holocaust are unimaginable, yet we must not forget, unbearable, and almost unreadable—hunger, sickness, abuse,
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Elie Wiesel tells his unfathomable story as a young boy who survived the concentration camps of the Holocaust. Night tells of Elie’s and his father’s struggle to survive and support each other; through the book, you get a glimpse of the irreversible damage that the experience had on the author. As readers, we cannot ever fully understand this story, but Elie Wiesel does an incredible job of recreating the terror, hunger, and brutality endured by the Jewish community. This story must be read in t
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Wiesel's compelling narrative of the undeserving Holocaust journey he encountered reveals a perspective most intentional avoid envisioning. Elie Wiesel battles with the neverending physical mutilation, emotional degradation, and soul desecration beside his father. As a reader you truly see that avoidance of memory and hesitation to envision is not just for the victims who experienced but also those who are captivated by the memoirs enough to prevent reoccurrance. "Night" teaches this painful his
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This non-fiction book is the story of a teenage boy who spent nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII. Mr. Wiesel describes the loss of his faith and family during his time of internment. The sentence structure in this book is rather simple, possibly, due to the fact that the book was translated from another language; however, the subject matter of the way people were killed, molestation of children, and violence may not make this book suitable for middle grades. If I we
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