Book Reports On Night By Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust is the biggest, most well known, genocide known to humankind. Many know about this atrocity, but only those that experienced it first hand can truly understand the true horrors that occurred. Elie Wiesel was one of those unfortunate souls. He was able to tell about his experiences so that the world would be able to see the true pain the jewish people had endured. Elie decided it was his duty to share his experience with the world and he chose to write a book about it. He writes of inhumanity of humankind. He writes in first person, and tells about how a mere short phrase changed his life forever. Elie begins his story as a normal 12 year old jewish boy in Romania. He introduces a person called Moshie, who plays a big role in Elie’s life. Elie looked up to Moshie because he was

They are forced to walk and run a long distance to board train cars, not knowing where their destination. Elie travels in a car with his family and a few neighbors. They were warned that if they tried to escape they would be shot down on the spot. By now, any hopes of Elie’s of this being a good change were crushed. They were let out of the train cars and separated by gender. “Men to the left, women to the right,” they said. (Wiesel 29) This quick separation, without time to say their goodbyes, was inhumane, but not as inhumane as what was coming. As Elie and his father go through the male line, they are told by many that they are headed to their death. They are to be burned. As they get closer and closer, Elie saw things he never thought any human being could possibly see. He watched as truckloads of babies got dumped into red hot fires . At this point Elie was wondering if life was even worth living. He made plans in his head to kill himself as he got closer to the pit. He had thoughts that no human should have while watching the unthinkable. As they got closer to the fire, the line turns left and Elie and his