Night question

To never say never. When Moeshie came back to their town in the beginning to warn them, the Jews did not listen. All the way up to when they arrived at Auschwitz, they did not believe they would die. They said things like "This is modern day society, it cannot be that bad." Things Americans say all the time.

When power is unchecked by some sort of government or other power, the chaos that can come from it can spread like a wildfire. The book "Night" explains of Elie's experiences in Auschwitz, about how much evil and death can come from just one camp, because of him we can see something like this from the eyes that can say more than someone who hasn't seen the darkness inside.

That people can be absolutely horrible to each other. I don't understand it, but that's what I learned and not just one or two cruel people but hundreds. It's so sad.

I read this for school. The scene where the prisoners are walking outside in the snow without shoes really stuck with me. They didn't complain. That would have brought more hardship. An organic thing happened where the snow that fell of the shoulder of the person in front of you would drop down near you. If you leaned slightly you could let the snow drop into your mouth. This scene, and how the prisoners helped each other without speaking has stuck with me all these years.

I learnt a lot from this book. Specifically about how certain horrific experiences can change the fundamentals of who you are as a person. There were details included in the book that I just could not comprehend! How could a man beat his own father to death for a piece of bread?! I really took away that the horrors of war can only truly be understand by those who lived through them...

One thing that really surprised me in Night was the way that Eliezer treated his father, at least in the beginning. After discussing it with my classmates, I was able to understand the reasoning why he acted that way.
The lesson I learned was that you can't judge people's actions without understanding exactly what is going on through their life, even if it was as obvious as the Holocaust.

how to survive

Night showed me how indifference looks to those who are suffering.

I learned that Wiesel had a bad experience in the concentration camps and the cruelty of the Germans towards jews

Not to lose hope. To preserver. Even when you can't see the "light at the end of the tunnel".

It could happen today.

I've learned that people put themselves first under the extreme circumstances. They were all in the same boat, but already started to act toward each other forgetting that they are all humans suffering from the same grief.
I regret being a human.

I know that he hunted Nazi's for many years to punish them. I wonder what it did to his inner peace. It seems that those victims, who were able to forgive, must have had a more peaceful life after the war.

When faced with an existential threat humans seek an inner strength that arguably even God cannot be sure from whence it comes. If not we perish.

Read the Myth of Sisyphus or The Book of Job

Life is hard. Live it well. Eat fatty foods. Don't be afraid.


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The incredible power of will this young man displays through the worst of time and honestly unmetionable horrors. It's inspiring to read his story.

People can be cruel, and it comes with a cost.

Survival comes at a cost.

May sound bleak but that's what I got from it.