Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, explains in his book the awful and horrific ways that Jews were treated during the Holocaust. The book narrated by Eliezer. Eliezer is a young Jewish teenager who is from Sighet in Hungarian. Eliezer’s instructor of Jewish Mysticism, Moshe the Beadle, is taken by the Gestapo, German secret police, and led to the woods where he and everyone else on his train to be killed. Moshe doesn’t get killed and returns to his home town to warn the locals of the Nazi’s plan to kill all the Jews. Nobody listens to Moshe and decides to stick around. In spring of 1944, the Jews of Eliezer’s town is forced to stay in Sighet in ghettos. They are eventually put onto cattle cars and forced to travel to Birkenaeu. Once Eliezer’s family gets there he and his father are separated from the rest of their family. Eliezer and his father then go through an inspection where they
In my opinion the book is very wishy washy. It talks about how many people they were killing and how often they were killed. If they killed so many people then why would they even waste their time doing selections? It also seems that it would be easier for them to go ahead and kill Eliezer instead of performing surgery on his foot. Another part of the book that had holes was when it was discussing how many people turned against God even the priest turned against God at some point, but when a religious Jewish holiday came around they all celebrated and most fasted for that day. If they were so starved then how could they afford to fast? It doesn’t make much sense. The book also explains how families split up and its pretty much everyman for himself, except for Eliezer and his father. What are the odds that they are the only ones who look out for each other? Sure he considers stopping taking care of his dad, but he n
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