Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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“Night” is a powerful Memoir with 178 pages and was published by New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Written by Elie Wiesel and published in 1956, this autobiography is about Elie’s experience with his father in the Nazi Germany concentration camps in 1944-1945 during the Holocaust. I believe the author’s purpose in writing this memoir was to write about the cruelty of the Nazi soldiers in the concentration camps and to be a voice for the Jews, specifically his family. He wanted to be the “messenger of the dead among the living”. Elie argued that he needed to give meaning to his survival and tell his story. At first, Elie did not have a voice, as he talked about in the book. Watching all of the madness around

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