Book Report Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about the Jewish concentration camps, and the inmates within them. The book takes place in the 1940s, (World War II time) in a concentration camp called Buchenwald. Towards the beginning of the book, Eliezer, a Jewish teenager, is forced to ride in a cattle cart with people going insane on the train ride. “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!”(pg. 24). Is what one of the ladies on the train was screaming, There was no fire, she was going insane because she was so afraid of the concentration camps. When Eliezer gets to Buchenwald he sees people being burned alive right as they get inside, he does not want that fate. From then on he knows he has to be strong to survive and to be willing to do whatever the Nazis tell him to for his will to survive. …show more content…

The main character, Eliezer, is a Jewish teenager in the 1940s. Since he is Jewish, he sent to a concentration camp, called Buchenwald. Eliezer has seen people burnt alive at Buchenwald, which really startles him. From the day he saw the burning people, he knew he had to seem strong to survive. “ Eat! Anything, anytime. Eat all you can. The weak don’t last very long around here…”(pg. 45) is what one of the inmates tells Eliezer. Eliezer takes this message to heart, he eats all he can and doesn’t even leave a crumb at mealtime. This shows Eliezer is willing to do anything so he isn’t thought of as

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