Night By Elie Wiesel Sparknotes

The book, Night by Ellie Wiesel, is about Moche the Beadle who is from modern-day Romania which is also called Sighet, Transylvania. The book first introduces the family of Moche to us. The family is Jewish. The narrator, Wiesel, wants to learn about religious mysticism and he picks Moche to be his teacher. Moche gets deported from Romania and a couple months later he escapes from Poland. He tries explain to others what could happen to his town, and the Jews. First, nobody believes him, but slowly things start to happen as he says. The Germans invade Hungary, and with the invasion, things get heated and Eliezer’s family moved to his uncle’s old house. A non-Jewish servant named Martha, tries to get the family to escape and hide in her village.

While traveling for two days, the temperature and food shortages, were very difficult. The wagons they were riding in stopped at Kaschau, Czechoslovakia. People realized that the wagons will not be staying in Hungary. A German soldier told to them they are under control of the Germans Army. The soldier said if someone tries to escape from the wagon they will shoot everyone in the train. Madame Schaechter is a fifty-year old woman, with a 10 year old son, on the train. She divorced her husband and she began to lose her mind. She is screaming and acts like she is crazy. The wagons finally arrived at Auschwitz. Madame Schaechter continue to scream. When the train pulls in to the camp, everyone sees the flames and the chimney that Madame Schaechter had prophesied. Everyone tries to get out of the

Eliezer is not in the same block with his father, because he transferred to the construction Kommando. They learn in a couple of days that a new list of numbers means that there are prisoners selected for death. Eliezer's father is on this list. A few nights later, Eliezer returns to find his father is still alive, having passed the second selection. Winter comes and it makes everything worse, makes life it unbearable. Eliezer’s foot began to swell and it becomes so swollen, that he is sent to the doctor, who is a Jewish prisoner. He told him that he needed an operation for his foot. Eliezer went to the hospital and the operation was successful. The doctor told Eliezer he needed to rest for a couple of weeks.

When they continued marching in the snow, Eliezer couldn't even feel his injured foot. When he fell asleep, his dad woke him up and told him not to fall asleep, because it's dangerous to sleep in the snow. A selection was already coming out. Eliezer’s father was sent to the right side, which is the bad side. Eliezer was sent to the left side. The right-side selection has to leave from camp. They walk until they meet the train and when it arrives they are pushed