Sometimes nightmares come true; and they're far worse than anything you ever expected. This was true for Elie Wiesel, the author of Night. He and thousands of other innocent people were stuck in a seemingly never ending nightmare: being forced into concentration camps by Adolf Hitler. Wiesel’s novel his personal experiences trapped in some of these camps, along with his thoughts and inner turmoil about his religion. When reading his novel you get a glimpse of the holocaust from a young survivor’s point of view, with the intricate writing skill of a college professor (Wiesel 3). I enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who wants to read an inspiring book about a young boy’s survival through the holocaust. Most novels can be seen as a recap of …show more content…
Even the most gruesome memories are illustrated in such detail that you have to wonder if it had happened that same day and not several years ago. This can be seen when Wiesel was forced to watch a young boy be hung who he describes as a sad-eyed angel, who hung alive for a half an hour because he was too light to die (Wiesel 65). During this part of the book, the emotions can be read word for word. Along with expressing a surplus of emotion, this is the moment that leads to Wiesel losing his faith in God. At the beginning of the book, Wiesel talks about his desire to learn more about his religion, but as the book progresses, he starts to lose his faith in God. It starts slowly when they enter the camp and his family is pulled apart but it quickly progresses as he suffers more and more. Until Wiesel loses his faith in God altogether believing that a God that punishes the people who worship him is no God at all; instead he chooses to believe that he was stronger without the God he had once believed to be the Almighty (Wiesel 67). Although he does lose his faith in God as the novel progresses, he does not lose his hope nor his appreciation of those he lost. Several times