Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

A holocaust is defined as a slaughter on a mass scale. However a holocaust so large scale became known as the Holocaust. Over the course of twelve years, six million Jews were exterminated and millions more endured the horrors of life at concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a young Jewish boy, was sent to one of those camps. But, unlike those six million Jews, he lived to tell the story. The following paragraphs will describe Elie’s experience as well as my thoughts and reactions to this novel. Night is a memoir detailing the horrors of the Holocaust and the dehumanizing effect it had on prisoners. Night is organized in chronological order and begins in 1941. At that time, Elie Wiesel was a twelve year old in Sighet, Transylvania. He was dedicated

Yes, the writing was clear and easy to understand but what the writing conveyed was heartrending and at times painful to read. It is a poignant account showing a passionate young boy transformed into nothing but a living corpse. Elie not only suffered extreme physical pain but also suffered emotionally. Night is real and honest, it does not have a happy ending or leaves the reader in a good mood. It is intensely personal, not only revealing Elie’s traumatizing experiences but also his feelings. His purpose in writing Night was to tell people about the horrors he, and millions of others endured by the hands of the cruel Nazis. I found it frightening how capable of evil some humans are. The book flowed impeccably, I read it in two sittings because it was too captivating to put down. The writing was easy to read because it was straightforward. The sentences were brief and simple because the power behind them didn’t need elaboration. They were strong enough to make me feel as if I were right next to Elie and his father, seeing the things he saw. Night completely changed what I originally thought of the Holocaust. Before I read this book, I knew millions died and suffered during the Holocaust but that was so general. After reading Night, I have more in depth knowledge of what exactly these people went through. This is why I liked that it was written by someone who experienced the

It is organized in chronological order and clearly states what Elie is going through, there is no lengthy vocabulary or complicated metaphors. Reading Night made me think of how many things we take for granted. In the concentration camps, the Jews lived with nothing. In one instance, Elie forgot that beds had sheets. I thought about how something as simple to us as sheets on a bed was a luxury to the prisoners. What Elie went through, to me, is completely and utterly unimaginable. While reading the book, I kept thinking how I wouldn’t have been able to do or witness what Elie did to survive. Some parts shocked me that some people are so capable of inflicting that level of pain on others with no