The last half of the book Night goes from one disaster to the next. There was a detest that was ripping out everyone’s gold teeth and there was brutal job managers that beat anyone for no reason. The soviets are fighting in the background so it is giving everyone a sense of false hope. Then before the camp is liberated everyone is forced to run to another camp, anyone that stops or collapses is either trampled to death by everyone else or shot to death. Finally at the end of the story the survives are liberated by the soviets.

Almost halfway threw Night and things are getting intense. Even before the prisoners could step off the train they knew to fear the SS Officers of Auschwitz. I do not think there was a more evil mindset then the one of an SS Officer, but they felt as if they were doing no wrong. The large furnaces were a constant reminder of how expendable each prisoner was. At the beginning they were told “Work Will Set You Free” this was quickly realized to be a lie, Everyone’s lives were in the hands of god and luck.

Unable to wait for my group to meet so we could continue reading Night I decided to read on without them. The plot was thickening and I needed to see how the family was doing. Unfortunately they were being prepared to be transported but know one knows where they are headed. The train ride was brutal and long very long almost 100 people a car without food and water, but those who were not near the window struggled for air. This portion of the book really made me feel as if I was one of the passengers just as nervous for the future as they were.

At first glance at the book Night I figured it would be another depressing holocaust book. Don’t get me wrong it was very depressing, but it also had an amazing story of a will to survive. At the start of the story the Jewish family is living happily in there home until soldiers transfer them to the ghettos. To the family having to move homes is heartbreaking although they have no idea of what is in store. Throughout the book it seems that what is happening could not get any worse for this family and yet each page uncovers a darker plot point.

The book was quite decently written, and although the writing wasn’t necessarily enthralling in its technical application or word choice, the communication of rather impactful scenes and the contrasts of his true thoughts regarding them was quite effective. His illustrations of what’s his thoughts with actions rather than words, and furthermore the careful selectionnof certain scenes that serve double use to contrast his later experiences and more actively convey the nuances of how they thought of certain situations ( such as the public execution system he witnessed, and which ones he chose to share and present in their order ) was also well done.

Putting aside the technical ability, the story and his experiences are very detailed, yet succinct, allowing both a quick read but also a very powerful, emotionally impactful read. The book, I imagine, would this be quite accessible to even those not particularly inclined to literature. As such, I would have to say this book is great, and sets to do exactly what it hopes to do, conveys was it wishes to, and wraps it tightly in a emotional, gripping, true story. Indeed, a very good book for truly any audience.

Following the death of his father, he follows on his own path, unaware entirely of the fate of the rest of his family, until the breakout and the allied forces showing up. They were showered with food and gifts by the soldiers, where he ate and ate, and subsequently grew sick ( as many did in fact ). He spent a few days back in the care of a doctor, where he then recovered.

The book Night so far is very good. It starts off in Eliezer, the main characters, point of view.  He lives in Nothern Hungry where his parents are shopkeepers. Him and his family are Strictly Jewish, and Eliezer wants to start learning the kabbalah, but his father doesn’t think he is old enough. later on, Eliezer makes friends with another jew named Moishe while he was praying at the synagogue. After a few months pass the Hungarian Police expel all foreign Jews and put them in train cars like cattle. This book is very good but hard to read at times. i highly recommend this book to people who like history and realistic books

I don’t understand how people allowed the Holocaust to happen. I don’t understand how they could hurt innocent people. Elie Wiesel had his gold crown removed, he didn’t get anything to ease the pain. He got whipped 26 times till he fainted for no reason. Elie had to watch his father get beat because he couldn’t do anything, he was too weak. In the end he did survive but his father died, he was alone.

My second-night blog opinion is the book, gets very deep in talking about the struggles that the kid and his father go through at Ausuwitch. His father gets beat for asking a simple question, such as if he can go to the bathroom. It really shows how bad the Nazi’s treated the Jews at any concentration camp. My current feeling on the book is that it is very well written and I look forward to reading the rest of the book and finding out more of the struggles that this family goes through and the eventual outcome as the Allies and the Soviets come and free them.

Across many different places in Europe, this was perhaps one of the safest places actually for this family to be; Hungary

Across the world, anti-Semitic sentiment protruded itself onto all reams of society, in Africa, in Asia, but particularly so in Europe, were nearly all the major powers disregarding the Allies participated in someway in this tragedy. One of the word places in Europe would be Eastern Europe, particularly in the Soviet Union, where to appease Ribbentrop, Stalin had thousands of Jews purged and shot within his eastern territories, even many upper members of the party, much of them Jews in fact, where purged.

Of course, they would be targeted later by it sides again over the course of the eastern front. The best place thus to find yourself then was actually in the Balkan, in places such as Hungary, Bulgaria, and Greece, where these governments held on to their autonomy and weren’t entirely under Nazi control, and thus only meekly on occasion capitulated to their “tributes” demanded by Hitler, meanwhile many were able to evade capture, escape, or for many, would be glad to find themselves the first to be liberated by approaching Soviet forces, who raced to cut through the region.

The family in Night thus find themselves in what is in fact one of the best countries they could’ve been in to avoid capture.