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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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The novel Night is a terrifying story that reveals the horrors of the Holocaust. The author Elie Wiesel,winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize and a Holocaust survivor, published this award winning book in the year 1956. He wrote this novel to tell about his experiences with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944-1945. Now his word and his story has gotten to the public so now we all now know and understand the horror of the Holocaust. This book is technically non-fiction and all the events that occur in this story are true, however it is very much organized like a novel. Wiesel uses a lot imagery, like a novel, throughout as he describes his town of Sighet in the beginning and the horrors of …show more content…

For just a moment Elie wishes that his father would die so Elie would only have to look over himself (this is just like Rabbi Eliahu’s son), but he immediately feels ashamed. Elie brings him soup and coffee, against the advice of other prisoners who counsel him to keep it for himself. Elie's father begs for water. An SS guard becomes annoyed and knocks him in the head. Elie wakes up the next morning and discovers his father's empty bed. However, he is more relieved than sad. Elie cannot cry, which disturbs him. But he knows that if he searched his mind, what he would find is the feeling, "free at last!". Chapter 9, the very last chapter of the novel, Elie is at Buchenwald for a couple more months, until April 11th. Elie says that t during those months after his father died, nothing mattered to him. Elie is only concerned with food during his remaining months at Buchenwald. On April 5, the evacuation of Buchenwald is ordered. Nazis murder thousands daily. On April 10, Elie's block is ordered to evacuate, but it is cut short by air raid sirens. The next day the camp is liberated. Elie gets food poisoning and spends a couple of weeks recovering in the hospital, hovering between life and death. When he is better, Elie looks at himself in the mirror. He sees a corpse. That vision of himself has stayed with him

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