Elie Wiesel's novel Night, is about his own family's struggle to survive the terrifying years of the early 1940's. Wiesel exists in a minority of Jews who lived to share his unfortunate and disturbing experiences. ... In readying themselves Elie's parents said, "We must fast as much as we can before we are deported because we do not know when they will be feeding us next (Wiesel 16)." ... At night she would scream that there was a fire, but sure enough, they were always false alarms. ... Reflecting on the situation Elie said, "If I was sent to the crematory I woul...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1338
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School