An inspiring, mind blowing, based on real life events novel is what “The Night Trilogy: Night. Dawn. Day” by Elie Wiesel is all about. By the title you may be thinking it’s a story of Egypt and how they distinguished the difference between night, dawn and day without clocks, but I assure you that’s not what’s it’s about. The title is based off of three books Wiesel wrote, night, dawn and day combined into one book. In this novel the main character and author Elie shares with us not a story, but his life and what he endured during the Holocaust. At the time he was an adolescent having to grow up faster than he should have. He saw things that some of us will never have to see in our life if we’re lucky. Wiesel is a survivor of suffering and Nazi imprisonment. …show more content…
The author states “If in my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one” (5). This novel is important not only to the author but to the readers as well. You get taught about the holocaust in history, briefly described situations so you can get an idea of how it was, but it never went beyond that. In this novel you get a deeper, fuller understanding of what life was like during the Holocaust. It’s important for the readers to be aware of what happened in the past, because in having knowledge over events such as the holocaust we can be prevent acts like the Holocaust from becoming our