Evaluation of the story The novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, brings us an suspenseful autobiography written in first person of the author’s life of his life experience of long days and nights journey for a year in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The story goes in depth with Wiesel being taken with his father to Auschwitz, losing the faith he had in the beginning, watching his family and father slowly fading away from him which had effects on himself, and being freed from the exhaustion of labor. This novel has many characters, suspense, and a variety of figurative language to help make the book come alive. From the start, Elie was lead to be a religious boy who would pray during his times. After being half separated from his …show more content…
He started losing his father as the hard labor and rest slowly takes over him. Knowing that he has to help his father no matter what happens, it doesn’t end that way. Remembering back, Elie witnessed the act of Rabbi Eliahu and his son’s relationship. No way did he ever think what couldn’t be true become true: “I gave him what was left of my soup. But my heart was heavy. I was aware that I was doing it grudgingly. Just like Rabbi Eliahu's son, I had not passed the test (Wiesel 107).” Wiesel doesn’t give enough detail of what happens next but what happens next surprised …show more content…
The main problem with the novel is the size of the book and could have included more on what happened to Elie in the end. The last paragraph of the novel, page 115, is the only part of the book where it says Elie after the war and it is only half of the paragraph. More detail would have been nice throughout the novel so it could state more descriptions and even more events that could have happened that the author left out. “We had the feeling of being alive …” (Wiesel 85). Elie could have added more in this sentence to give more description to how the prisoners felt while they were running because feeling alive was the only clue he gave the readers. Another example of this would be “I succeeded in digging a hole in that wall of dead and dying people, a small hole through which I could drink a little air.” (Wiesel 94). This is an example of not enough detail because it is the last sentence of the scene and gives no details or hints about what happened after he climbed out of the pile of bodies. In the end there were more positive things about the novel then