What Is Brief Summary Of The Book Night, By Eliezer Wiesel

Night by Eliezer Wiesel

It´s horrible to spend every second of your life thinking that it may be the last. More so if you are a child of 14 years that is begginig to live. A child that is prompted into a concentration camp, the traumas from seeing people die, the indifference to the death of others, and the relief from coming out of the camp. All these envelope the life of Eliezer Wiesel.

Eliezer Wiesel writes on his book about his own experience during the World War II. He writes how the Nazi destroys the Jewish and about the horrors of being put into a concentration camp. Only he knows what that was like seeing people starve to death and getting weak by the moment to the point of dying, seeing people be treated less than animals by the savage guards and being burnt and put into the same grave. All these traumatic memories were part of his young life. He was stripped of his childhood, of all the precious memories he could have made. His experiences definitely marked him for life in all the ways: mentally, spiritually and bodily.

He became indifferent and almost senseless because of seeing death in the face. He writes, …”My heart was about to burst. There. I was face-to-face with the Angel of Death…”(34). One of these deaths was of his father, who after his death, Eliezer seemed relieved. He saw so many executions and deaths that it seemed to him as an everyday routine. From reading Night one infers that he was a strong witted child, able to run away from death in many occasions. Although he seemed not well affected by his father´s death, he did show that he loved his dad dearly, he tried to save him, to see him alive by giving him his own food. He chanced his dad even more because he was separated from his mom before going to the concentration