Book Reports For Night By Elie Wiesel

For this book report, I chose to read the book Night. Night was a book written by Elie Wiesel in 1960. The novel’s story is set in Germany during the holocaust which took place in April 1945. During the course of this story, the setting varies from the Transylvanian town of Sighet, to Auschwitz, then to Buna, and lastly Buchenwald. Despite the warnings Elie and his family hears about the German’s intentions towards the Jews in the town of Sighet, they ignore the warnings, and lose their chance to escape from the horrible, oppressive Nazi Germany. As a result, Elie, his family and the entire Jewish population are forcefully captured and sent to concentration camps. The Jews would either be lucky to be able to work, or to be sent to the crematorium,

Elie is served a slice of bread and thinks to himself that it would be better for him to eat it, rather than giving it to his dying father. However, starvation was not the key factor to Elie’s monstrous thoughts. It was the Nazi Germany that made Elie into a monster. In the camp, Elie witnesses a son murdering his own father with a knife to steal his father’s bread. He then realizes his love for his father, and prays to God to let him never think about betraying his father again. Over the course of the book, Elie’s father is very sick and is sent to a hospital bed. In the midst of the night, Elie’s father disappears and is sent to the crematorium. Elie does not feel sadness, but only relief. As time goes on, Elie is moved to Buchenwald, where American troops liberate the Jewish concentration camps. Although Elie survives the torture, the beating and near death, the nightmares from the camp will forever haunt him in the

The book displays how scary the holocaust was for the Jews, how the holocaust was like, how you were determined to die or work, how there was nothing you could do to escape but just to pray. The author chooses to put an S.S physician known for his inhumane medical experimentation on the Jews, who was named Josef Mengele. The author describes how people were chosen and sent to go to the crematorium and how they vividly burned to ashes and dust. I learned about how sad and miserable the holocaust was for the jewish population. “My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it was possible”(19). The holocaust was so harsh, that it made the impossible possible. In the concentration camps, the S.S officers would yell, “Men to the left! Women to the right”(29)! I learned that Nazi Germany were so heartless that they would separate their own families to even make the matter worse. “All the skilled workers had already been sent to other camps”(46). This made me realize that the strong, Jews, were more likely to live than the weak ones. The weak, old Jews didn’t have a choice, but to die. “On the other hand, the dentist seemed more conscientious: he asked me to open my mouth wide. In fact, he was not looking for decay but for gold teeth”(48). I learned that the Nazi Germany did medical check ups on the Jews, only for themselves. If someone was wearing a gold crown in