Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928 (Gradesaver.com). Prior to being taken under the Nazi's rule, he decided to pursue Religious studies, as his father did. He grew up with his parents and three sisters. In the year 1944, when Elie was 15 years old, Nazi's took over Sighet and a few other areas, and transported the people to concentration camps in Poland. Millions of Jews were killed, and on April 10, 1945, Elie was in the camp of Buchenwald when freedom became present. After the holocaust, Wiesel studied at the Sorbonne in France from the years 1948-1951. Wiesel has been given numerous awards, two of them being the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor's Grand

The separation is subtle at first but escalates from just having to wear a Jewish star on their clothing, to being burned alive in crematories- just in a matter of weeks. When Elie first arrives to the Auschwitz concentration camp, the first concentration camp Elie experiences, his family was immediately separated; him and his father in one line and his mother and sisters in the other. After that day he never saw his mother or sisters again. Only the strong survived through the concentration camps; Elie is the reason his father lived so long, but they did everything they could to help keep each other alive. The bond him and his father had created throughout the novel is really what kept them alive- the idea that in the end they would make it out together and live like they used to. Everyone under the Nazi’s rule in the concentration camp struggled; the labor they were forced to do, lack of food and mistreatment was irrational. In the beginning, Elie and the Jews were forced out of their homes and were stripped of everything they once knew. In the end, Elie ended up alone being that his father died at the last camp only days before the American SS came on April tenth and freed the remaining Jews (Inconvenienthistory.com). After he was freed with the others he looked at his reflection for the first time since the ghetto and knew that those years in the

It is admirable how Wiesel suffered through it all and lived to tell his story. It must have been difficult for Elie to write Night and relive his experiences. When looking back on the supposed hellish experience, having to tell the tale of being separated from his family and then watching and knowing his father was going to die must have been heartbreaking. The Holocaust is intriguing- killing millions of people in cruel and unusual ways seems surreal. Elie is inspirational in how he tried so hard to keep his father alive even when it made his life much harder. He never became selfish like many of the other sons ridding themselves of the baggage of their fathers. After the holocaust he went on with his life and became a writer and received numerous awards for writing about topics such as the holocaust. The book was interesting and emotional, and never having to experience that is something to be thankful