Night by Elie Wiesel is a historical account of the author's experience as a holocaust victim in WWII. This book was initially published in 1960, fifteen years after WWII's end. Wiesel uses the powerful first person tense to personally relate the horror he experienced, sharing his story so passionately that no one can ignore it. "Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies I saw turned into wreathes of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments, which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never” (32). This account of the holocaust will change you and remain in your mind as you question the thing
Could such a tragedy conclude with a happy ending? The resolution of Night leaves the reader in reflection. One can't help but wonder how the story told on these pages ever came to be. Elie was the only surviving member of his family. But even though the author survived his experience, its horror still plagued him for the rest of his life. The author challenges the reader with the same questions that bewilder him at the end. "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me” (109).
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Night is a reality ridden with every conflict one can imagine, the most powerful of these being life and death. "In every stiffened corpse I saw myself. And soon I should not even see them; I should be one of them - a matter of hou
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