Title: Night
Author: Elie Wiesel
Genre: Autobiography
# of pages: 120 pages
Rating: 9
“Eliezer, my son, come here… don’t leave me alone…”
“I heard his voice…yet I did not move… I was afraid… afraid of the blows… I remained deaf to his cries.” (Wiesel)
Elie was sixteen when the SS officers invaded his small town of Sighet, Transylvania. He was transported first to Auschwitz, and then to Buchenwald. Elie leaves Night as a record of death, starvation and torture. Night was Elie’s way to make sure that an evil man did not get his last wish: for Hitler’s crimes to be erased from human memory. The ways of the Nazis bring chills up your spine and leave you sitting in your bed in the dark for hours with pictures of starved corpses and disturbing screams filling your mind. It is a story that does not leave you.
Can you call a man that used babies as gun targets human? Under the definition of human does is include a man that separated families, “men to the left, women to the right,” burned infants, and starved and froze men to death. How about a man who had Jews thinking they were getting a shower only to get killed in a gas chamber. Would a man named Hitler who took a body and stripped it of a soul until a corpse was left, a corpse used for his factories be consider human? How can one man think of so many torturous ways to cause pain to a person, many persons, six million persons? How can one small selfish man begin to take over the world? When does a greedy man decide to be a slaughterer? I am sure that I’m not the first to ask these questions. There are many theories direct towards the answer to this question: power hungry, greed, his charismatic demeanor, I couldn’t tell you. But Elie can.
You, too. I love how you presented your feisty but very true opinions. It made this more interesting to read and you could really hear your voice. The quotes were also effective in the beginning of the entry. Keep it up :) oh, well maybe not 'cause this is the last one...
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