Night, By: Elie Wiesel "Night", by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of a child's experience during World War II, more specifically, the Holocaust. ... Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. ... Nothing but bread (Wiesel, 109)." ... The feelings Elie Wiesel gave me as I read his experience are indescribable. ... Elie Wiesel is a brave man. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Night" can be looked at as a memoir of a young Jewish teenager who grew up in concentration camps. However, even though it technically is not a memoir and our author, Elie Wiesel, has altered details, the story that follows Eliezer through the Holocaust gives its readers a detailed, personal, and emotional look into the Holocaust. ... "Night" begins with background information on who Eliezer is. ... She's not the only one here" (Wiesel 26). ... I believe that "Night" is a necessary book for anyone who is studying World War II. ...

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Night is a book based on a true story by Elie Wiesel. The story is based on Wiesel's life during the Holocaust. However, Wiesel renames the narrator to Eliezer and changes minor details in his story because it was too traumatizing for Wiesel to recount his own experience with his own character. ... Some of the experiences Wiesel describes include burning pits of babies and adults, babies being tossed up in the air and used as target practice with machine guns, people killing each other over small scraps of food, children being hung, and more (Wiesel). At one point in the story, Wiesel wr...

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Another great example of devaluation of life was "The Night of Broken Glass." ... In Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes the camp and his first night, "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. ... (Night pg. 46). Wiesel described the horrors of the concentration camps, and how his life had become a long night, waiting to get out of hell. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School