I can understand why this book is taught in schools, I wish it had been something that I had studied in my own school, especially since WWII was one of our subjects in GCSE History. But you must never forget, because if you forget, what the hell are you going to learn?” I heard a wonderful quote the other day (strangely from the mouth of Reggie Yates) which I feel is completely relevant to this part of history “It’s definitely important that you forgive, and that’s the only way things are going to change, if people forgive. It’s incomprehensible the things that were done during WWII but it’s important to remember that they did happen, so we can avoid it happening again. Wiesel based the bookat least in parton his own experiences during World War II. A work of fiction so disturbing and heartbreaking you think surely none of this can be real? But, of course it is. 'Night,' by Elie Wiesel, is a work of Holocaust literature with a decidedly autobiographical slant. Night feels like a tragic work of fiction. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.” “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. Many people lost their faith during this time, and many trusted only themselves. Wiesel explains how he saw, first hand, sons turn on their fathers, the young turn on the old. Where unconditional, selfless love once reigned, the devasting treatment of the Jewish people meant they no longer cared for their peers wellbeing, as long as they themselves were safe. What struck me the hardest with this novel is the idea that the Holocaust turned friends and family upon each other so easily. It’s certainly a difficult book to read but it’s important to not turn a blind eye on the treatment of Jewish people during this time. This is a very short, but very sobering non-fiction book from a young man who survived the persecution of the Jewish people during World War II. We are never, ever going to truly understand the full extent of the pain inflicted upon Jewish people, and others, in concentration camps, but this might be our best shot. He tells his story in a highly subjective, first-person, autobiographical voice, and, as a result, we get an intimate, personal account of the Holocaust through direct descriptive language. I cannot begin to explain my thoughts and the emotions one goes through when reading this. Eliezer is more than just a traditional protagonist his direct experience is the entire substance of Night. “They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a nickname.” A compelling consideration of the darkest side of human nature and the enduring power of hope, it remains one of the most important works of the twentieth century. Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor’s perspective, Night is among the most personal, intimate and poignant of all accounts of the Holocaust. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and faith. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
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