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Title: Night by Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, Francois Mauriac ISBN: 0-553-27253-5 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.37 (733 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Small but packed with eye opening power.
Comment: No matter how much I think I know about the horror of the Holocaust during World War II, whenever I read an unknown view my disbelief and disgust continues to grow. This especially holds true with Elie Wiezel's personal account of this terrible time in his life. Wiezel is a teenage boy who goes through the journey that we have become familiar with. His family endures the infamous Star of David armbands, Jewish ghettos, and the crowded train ride that leads them to their fate. The family is separated at the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. Elie is able to stay with his father as him mother and sisters are ushered away, most likely to the crematories that are blazing and smoking of human flesh. As Elie and his father are being moved, Elie loses his faith with each step. As he watched young children being burned alive, his God was murdered forever. This is such a significant part of the book because it shows the incredible impact that only one night had on this boy. This boy who was so completely devoted to his religion and faith, but lost it all after one night in a concentration camp. After this night, staying with his father and getting food were the two most important things to Elie, in that order. As the time wore on, Elie began to find himself hoping for freedom from his father's burden. This also shows how the Holocaust tore people down until they could care about nothing. Elie Wiezel lived to tell his story and people should definitely take the opportunity to see through his eyes. It's hard to read and a difficult subject matter, but it opens up people's eyes. I have deep appreciation for this book but it would have had a larger impact if the book were longer.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable message
Comment: "Night", by Ellie Wiesel, explains his real life in the Concentration Camps during World War II. His family and friends who were originally from Hungary were Jewish and were forced into starving, suffering, and mistreatment by the German leader, Adolph Hitler. The Nazi death camp's horror turns this young boy into the agonized witness to his family's murder, and the destroys his faith in God. This book awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute worst and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
The autobiographical nature of this book helps the readers identify with all the suffering and mistreatment that many innocent people had to witness and go through. Ellie Wiesel makes the scenes so real that any reader can feel like they were living in the horrible and terrifying events. The scenes are so vivid that the words can picture the Jews during the mistreatment of the Holocaust. Wiesel has described a painful journey through the darkness, through the false dawns and false days, until there are hints that tiny shafts of light can pierce the seemingly unending nights.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unrelenting... A book that should never be forgotten.
Comment: I know this book is already acclaimed and pretty much reccommended by everyone, but I felt I had to put in my own two cents. This book was so unrelenting, so horrifying..it's not a story about an adventure. It's not a story about a hero triumphing over his villain. This book is a essentially a series of horrific and tragic events happening to a young boy, and how he survives them. As Elie Wiesel says in the novel, "Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as God himself. Never." And neither should we.
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Title: Wiesel's Night (Cliffs Notes) by Maryam Riess ISBN: 0822008939 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 22 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dawn by Elie Wiesel ISBN: 0553225367 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ISBN: 0446310786 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 11 October, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi ISBN: 0684826801 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Lord of the Flies by William Gerald Golding ISBN: 0399501487 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: July, 1959 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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