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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Micaela Ladjevic Professor Hernandez English 1 Honors October 25, 2017 Title In Elie Wiesel’s holocaust narrative, Night, Elie is a sixteen year old boy who lives during World War II and the Holocaust. In the midst of Elie’s World War II experience, Elie has an extra burden weighing him down-- his father. His father, Shlomo Wiesel, becomes very weak while in Auschwitz, and Elie has to take extra care of him. Shlomo nearly starves Elie by taking his daily rations of food and is in constant need of Elies rescue, making him more of a burden than a help. When Shlomo, Elie’s father, first becomes sicker (and weaker) Elie starts to give him extra portions of his own food. Since Shlomo was so weak and vulnerable, some of the other concentration

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