Book Review on ' Night '

' Night '




" Night by Elie Wiesel is about a young boy and his journey through the 
holocuast. It is  short memoir that instantly sucks you in and welcomes you to this eye opening, breath taking journey.


Eliezer has to face many problems, many dissapointments, and many losses through his unforgettable journey. Growing up in a concentration camp was horrible for Eliezer, for anyone. Everyday Eliezer lost more faith in god because he did not help him.  Eliezer and his family got taken away when he was a teenager, when they got to the concentration camp they instantly got seperated and he never say his little sister or loving, caring mother ever again. 

I think that Eliezer learned that you have to be strong, and some things in life areso horrible that if you cannot run away from it, you must learn to cope with it in a way that you dont poison your mind.  Elie is still scarred, when he looks in the mirror his eyes are as dead as they were in the holocuast, and once your dead, your always dead, you can never bring back that feeling of " alive "


Life is cruel, and Eliezers life was one of the cruelest. Eliezer saw so many killed,even his own father killed, eliezer lost all innocence the moment he stepped into the concentration camp. 


This is very much like a coming of age novel because Eliezer lost all innocence,he lost all freedom, he lost all of his childhood. He had to act mature, and understand, and be an adult, he had to fight for his life. Eliezer got excited over an extra piece of bread, not a new book or a new toy that he got. Eliezer lost his innocence, and I am sure so did  many other children , if they did not act mature or grown up about some things they usually ended up dead.

Eliezer realized that the world is a horrible, scary place, and that some people are very mean, racist, and when someone has a little bit of power they take it all, and take advantage of the people lower then them. Sometimes when someone is making a plan they do not stop to think how it could affect the people that do not deserve the pain, and the agoney. 


I really enjoyed reading this memoir, it was short but yet it had all of the features a book would have in a longer book, and for that it made it seem like it went on forever, and then when it ended, I wanted to continue reading. I would not change anything about this book at all except the title. I would change the title because I find when I look at the book it does not make me feel the same way I felt when I was acually reading the book, I do not know what I would name the book if I was the author, but I would try to name it something mysteriouse, something that catches your eye and makes you wonder. 


The favorite line that I love was " No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory." This was my favorite quote from the book because its very cruel, and it sounds like they just tottaly forgot about him, and that after he died nobody cared anymore, he was gone, forever. Its not that Eliezer did not love his father, its that he could not afford to, if he did then he would die. 

         Overall I thought that the book was very well written, and I would like to read more of his books. I recommend this book to anybody!