Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night is an account of a young Jewish boy’s experience during the Holocaust, who is on a quest to survive, despite his weaknesses. He overcomes a period of darkness to see light again. The book summarizes the horror of the kid -a witness to the death of his family and friends, innocence and holiness. As Elie Wiesel struggles to move on with his life, along with his father and the other captives, he is desperate to find hope in the life or death situation.

Elie Wiesel was settled in Sighet, a little town in Transylvania, together with his parents and three other sisters in 1941. He had a keen interest in learning the Talmud and Kabbalah. Eventually, he found Moishe the Beadle as his master. As time passed all the foreign Jews were expelled from

Several months later, Moishe returns to Sighet with a warning to the people that the war had been drawing near, but nobody believed him. As the year passed, the Germans took over Sighet and its Jews with their tactics. They were moved to the Ghettos. The Ghettos were confined places where people had to live. Life was difficult in those situations. There were neither enough places to live nor any sanity in the available area. Diseases and starvation killed many people. Later on, the prisoners were moved to Auschwitz via convoys of cattle wagons, with eighty people stuffed in each car. Elie’s car, additionally, also included a crazy lady named Madame Schachter who had actually foreseen the chimney of the concentration camp. When they had arrived, the people were separated between the males and females.

This was the effect or impact of the Holocaust on the people. People ended up killing their own sons or father to survive the disasters. At the beginning of the story, Wiesel was separated from the female side of his family never to meet most of them again. So Elie was left out with his dad. They only had each other and lived for each other. During the long run to Gleiwitz, he says, “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me . . . I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his only support.” (Wiesel, 86). This was the kind of affection Elie had towards his dad. But as times got tougher and rations of servings decreased, he finds himself as selfish as the others. He thinks that now his father had become a sort of burden for him. He also quotes the example of the Rabbi and his son where the son had left the Rabbi alone because the Rabbi was considered as a burden. He also narrates another time where a boy killed his father in the train for a ration of bread. He had also once told about the pipel who abused his father. These illustrations had tempted him to go away from his dad. Though he was ready to serve his father when he was dying, he thought he didn’t do it with his whole heart; he had done it for namesake. He had considered that he failed the test – the test which tested his loyalty towards his