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Book Report On Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the book Night Eliezer came face to face to some of his greatest fears, separating with his family, didn’t know where they were going but all at once he felt changed. He didn’t feel like God was with him, he felt as if he vanished. They go to many concentration camps and work many hours, go through tons of selections, train trip, and running miles a day. Your time at the camp is either life or death swaying back and forth. “Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul that turned my dreams to ashes.” He will never forget anything he saw in the concentration camp and will never be able to come back from his past. His family was very religious before the camp, he prayed everyday and had a spiritual leader. Since the camp, he said he doesn’t believe there is a God because of these concentration camps. When the …show more content…

When Warsaw was hanged he didn’t want the blindfold on. As soon as they were about to pull the chair out from underneath his feet he yelled “Long live liberty! My curse on Germany!” After that i was silent and still, caps were to be on immediately and and everyone was forced by the Kapos, to walk past and look at him and stare at his face. Afterwards they were able to go and eat and that night Eli thought the soup tasted better than ever. Eli wanted many things throughout his time at concentration camps but one he can’t forget is Pipel. He was tortured for weeks because they had found weapons in his block. He wouldn’t give any names so he and two other men were sentenced to death. They going up on the chairs and nooses around their necks and the chairs were tipped. The two men besides Pipel were dead their tongues were purple, but Pilpel tongue was still red he was not yet dead. That night the soup tasted of

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