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In the book Night Elie Wiesel a 15 year old boy takes his readers through the life of a Holocaust survivor. When reading Night you feel what he feels what Elie feels. This truly inspirational book is a great read and helps you understand the gruesome, frightening, and suffering that was the Holocaust. No one should ever have to endure the suffering that he went through in order to survive this horrific event. One part of the book that I found particularly striking to me would have to be the death march. The death March happened in April of 1945. The Allied forces were moving in on the germans and their concentration camps. This cause the germans to force the jew to run to another camp closer farther into german line to a concentration camp called Buchenwald. The Jewish people were hungry, over worked and many were sick this made the match that much harder. …show more content…

This ends up being a bad decision for Ellie because after the war he learns about how that camp along with the people in the infirmary had been liberated by the Russians. Ellie hungry like many other Jews but a little bit more having giving his portions of soup to his dad because he had needed it. His dad became very sick and it didn’t look like he would live much longer. The day of the march the soldiers forced all the Jews to sprint for miles. Ellie was running along side his dad. They made them run as fast as they could run. ¨ The SS made us increase our pace ¨Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!" Why not? Moving fast made us a little warmer¨ Said Ellie on page 85. The officers had orders to shoot anyone who could not maintain the pace but many other Jews dropped dead during the run and the officers didn’t waste a bullet. When the SS officers were tired they were replaced. But the Jews were forced to keep

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The closing quote of the novel Night reveals how the inhumane experiences in the camps turned him into a living corpse and there are many events that led up to this haunting ending. What Wiesel meant by this statement is how he was able to survive the Holocaust even when everything was taken from him. He is explaining how after being held as a prisoner, he no longer sees himself as truly alive. The experiences we face, the horrors we witness, and the terrors we live through, kill us inside, but we still live on.

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This section did not have hope in it unlike the past section. However, I was able to get more of a perspective of how activities ran in Auschwitz and all the other camps intermingled within it. I found that the section had only a few parts that were disturbing, but for the most part, I find that the author of the book is increasingly likeable. Although he has guilt for some of his orders, it is a significant contrast from the guards in charge whom do not care about any prisoner. What I found to be very reprimandable is when Nyiszli gave the female prisoners medicine to take back to their shacks.

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