This book was deffinitely worth reading. It’s such a sort book that contains knowledge usefull for may genarations. Each chapter was well developed but related to the theme of the book and the main messages of it as well. Although this book is depressing, it is uplifting because Elie got out of the camp alive. Night was not a factual book, rather it seemed like a fiction book while I was reading it. This book made me appriciate my family and the love I recieve from my friends a lot more. I became educated on the treatment of Jews in Auschwitz, but I know more about the emotions of the people being mistreated than the statistics or the percent killed. I will always remember Elie’s personality when struggling through a hard time, or even doing, say, a demanding workout. Elie fought for his family and his life in order to stay alive. Watching the people that were close to Elie being killed right infront of him in the concentration camps is a hard pill to swallow. Elie is a brave man and I worship his courage and attempts to improve the moral of the rest of the suffering people. Elie kept his head high and was selfless thoughout the entire book. When his father was too sick to carry on in Auschwitz, Elie still gave up his rations of bread and soup for his father. I am interested in reading the book Dawn by Elie Weisel to find out more of the life of this inspiring man.

I have nothing much to say other than wow. I feel so spoiled in this world when reading about the teenage life of Elie Wiesel. I can’t even count the number of times that I have complained about what someone else has, and what I want or claim that I “need.” I need absolutly nothing right now and I’m living like a queen in comparisson to how Elie Wiesel lived his adolescent life. In my mind I want to erase my love of material things, but I know that it would be difficult to change what I have loved for most of my life. Before reading this book, I imagined Auschwitz as a place where no one survived, where everyone was murdered, and where no emotions were expressed. I know now that the Jews sent to these camps were worked to death, treated like slaves, and starved. In a way, life was much harder being overworked than being killed right away, as your soul would be ripped to peices, once more, every single day. No life remained for Elie after he was taken from his family and while he watched his father disintegrate. Auschwitz was a mass of moving bodies with nothing inside of them functioning. The Jewish were so out of hope that even their worship for a ration of bread was lost.
I have one question about the camps, though; what do the different “blocks” mean? How did the soldiers separate the Jews into different “blocks”… im guessing that the blocks were separated by the different abilities and skills of the peolpe? But how wee some “blocks” better than others?
Anyway, I was surprised that there weren’t more people at the camp who tried to escape. I remember when there was a large bowl of soup left near to where the Jews were working. One man went over to drink it… but not a huge crowd went over like I would have guessed. This man who went for the meal, hadn’t had food for days. He was unfortunately killed by a hidden bomb near the soup. It was a trap, but I would have thought that more people would be desperate for food. Elie along with the soup man, was outstandingly brave. Elie went to the doctor and got surgery, when it was known that the sick were burned. Elie managed to escape the hospital after his surgery before being burned which shows honor. Elie was also daring enough to switch lines in order to be with his father. Elie would have gotten killed if he were caught for such a thing. Night shows the love that families have for oneanother. Elie and his father show such a strong bond that their devotion to eachother kept eachother living each day they suffered.

This book is amazing. Already do I know so much about life for Jews in the early 1940s just from Elie Wiesel’s clear descriptions of his emotions during this time. I am quite confused about the neighborhood that Elie and his family lived in before they were evacuated and taken to Auschwitz. When Wiesel talks about these “ghettos” with numbers, like the “first ghetto,” I picture seperate villages facing other communities all in one city. The ghetto that Elie lived in had to be blocked off from the other ghettos facing him. The people living in the community with him were assigned their own Jewish police, and government, but it shocked me to read that the people of this community thought positively of having a Jewish council, when it bound to separate the Jews from the rest of the world. Knowing the fate of Elie and his family made me cringe when they in fact had no idea what was instore for them. Elie writes, “People must have thought there could be no greater torment in God’s hell than that of being stranded here, on the sidewalk, among the bundles, in the middle of the street under a blazing sun. Anything seemed prefeable to that.” This was the first day of the ghetto’s “journey,” and already the Jews thought that they had been through the worst. If these people felt joy after suffering heat, I can’t even imagine as to what they must have thought after being liberated form Auschwitz. The anticipation that the Jewish felt must have been unbearable. Having to prepare for a life- changing event, but given no information about would make me nervous beyond belief, as I am not a patient person. It also makes me flinch to known that there was a man of the Hungarian police willing to rescuse the Wiesel family before they were to be sent to the concentration camp. How can Elie Wiesel put up with the fact that he could have escaped Auschwitz before even being sent there in the train, had he taken action just seconds earlier. Elie Wiesel puts his emotions in words that can be easily translated for the whole world to read. I indeed home that the whole world does read this book. Night makes my neves jump and my brain throb as I read it. I have a hard time stoppig my fingers from turining the pages!

I have very high expectations of the author Elie Wiesel. When I mention that I am reading the book, Night to someone, I always recieve positive feedback on the book. Sad books are my favorite type of books to read, as they make me feel grateful for what I have now. I expect this book to be sad, since it is about a Jew commuity that is sent Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. I hope to view the world and its past with more sympathy after reading this book.
Since this book is so well known, I chose it from the selection given. I no longer want to listen in on the coversations about this book, I want to engage in these gatherings and be able to discuss the horrors of that time peroid with my peers. I know many students who read Night in their freshman year or during their last year of middle school for english, but I was unfortunately never assigned to read it. My knowledge on the Nazi Regime is low, but that doesn’t mean i don’t care for the subject. For some reason, I never got around to finnishing any of the books I started on this subject, but I hope to sucessfuly appriciate Elie Wiesel’s writing and experieces in Night.
Not knowing many facts on Auschwits will make me more engaged in Night. This book will be a helpful opening to the nonfiction writings of Germany in the 1600s. Having “evil” as the topic for this reading assignment will spark thoughts in my head as I am reading about the torturing of babies ect. Reading a nonfiction book about evil may help me connect evil to the real world instead of having evil appear in movies or on TV.
I am also glad to be reading this book with a friend so that we can discuss our opinions and observations on what we just read. I have heard a plethora of marvelous things about Elie Weisel and I can’t wait to begin this book.