Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

The horrific events that occurred in Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, are disgusting because they are events that could have happened to any Jewish person who lived in Europe during the time of the Holocaust. This book urges its readers to consider many aspects of human experiences, especially ones such as morality, and fate. In this book, Eliezer, the main character who is a Jewish teenager from Hungary, goes through the horrific experiences of Auschwitz, one of Hitler’s concentration camps. Eliezer experiences the death of others around him, he survived crematories, and the shootings of the Gestapo soldiers. This book urges readers to consider morality because it makes people think of how immoral humanity can become with the genocide of an entire race of people. The book also urges readers to consider how some people can hold the fate of others by showing how Jewish people’s lives were taken over by a different race.

Even though it was a catastrophic event for the Jewish race in Europe, there were still some people throughout this book who still had hope that there was good that came out of all of the bad. When Eliezer first arrived in Birkenau, there were older people among the group that calmed down people who wanted to revolt against the guards. The elders, “begged their children to not do anything foolish” (29). The elders would tell them that they “must never lose faith, even when the sword hand over [their] head” (29). Throughout the book, people still have faith that everything is going to be alright. People like Eliezer and his father somewhat had the hope and the courage to pull through all the bad they were experiencing. Eliezer’s father and the rest of his family, unfortunately did not survive the horrific events that occurred. However, Eliezer pulled through until he was liberated from the concentration camps for