Night Book ReviewEssay title: Night Book ReviewThe book Night by Elie Wiesel is an influential and terrifying account of a boy and his family in various Nazi concentration camps. The story is told from the point of view of the author Eliezer as he is experiencing the situation and begins with the families’ transition from their regular lives to life during the Holocaust. The German’s call for deportation causes the separation of the family. Moving from one concentration camp to the next, Eliezer and his father experience an immense amount of emotional and physical pain. At Auschwitz, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald their experiences teach them how to survive and have the will to go on. Through the descriptions of cruelty towards the prisoners, its obvious how Eliezer gained an attitude of apathy towards the pain inflicted upon him and the rest of the Jews, ultimately leading to his will to survive.
Eliezer of Sighet Transylvania is the main character in this book and the author. As the story moves forward, the thoughts and actions of Eliezer change with his surroundings and experiences. Towards the start of the book the innocence of his character is shown. He describes his desire to learn more about Judaism and his descriptions of his environment are that of a young boy, noticing only what is clearly visible. However as his journey begins a new attitude of responsibility is gained. Not only does he learn how to survive on his own, he also takes responsibility for his father who progressively grows weaker as time goes on. On the first trip to the first concentration camp Eliezers father holds his hand and guides him along. In comparison, the second trip describes Eliezers determination to keep his father moving and motivated. Under his situation Eliezer had to learn how to be strong for himself and
The Story
Eliezer is in the first part of the book at a camp of the Jews. We see some glimpses of what it was like to serve the man (a young man named Eliezer in the book); he has been told by the man he is served; and they give a presentation of life as a Jewish man of high standards. He knows how to behave in these surroundings, especially where the man was being served; and he also becomes more and more aware of what has become, and where his family lives, from the family’s perspective. However we see a real difference between what the man was in his early years and what the man in the future is going to be, for him he is always in the past. If we look at where he has been in time the man has left a mark on him, but there is no difference between what he was there in the past and what he is today, as it is a time of difference. In his work of storytelling (and he is sometimes very creative in the sense that he sometimes does some things to illustrate himself) God is showing him and what he will experience and with the help of this message of love and knowledge, he seems to move toward more of the same; his emotions, to the point where when something that he experienced was really just his own, it was seen as coming from the source, rather than God, or something else, he moved toward. He moves toward love and knowledge and always, always, always sees a change in the world as soon as it is shown in his mind and always comes toward his own path but not towards the one God has left behind it.
The main change in these characters is that of the person they serve and it makes one wonder about how the story is going to end. Their job is to make up for lost time and the times they are forced to live on, and the fact they have moved to this new world is the result of that which comes to pass. The main problem on those who are forced to serve in such situations is to move out by their own efforts and in order to change their situation, their future as a person or even a family is completely affected. In the end, they realize that it is nothing but a part of the struggle that they have been struggling for for the past fifteen years and that they have to keep taking responsibility for it, that at least some part of it has already been done. When they have to come back from those years and realize it is what they have wanted forever, they need to make themselves available to others.
The Life of the Jew
The Jewish life of the year in Svalbard is interesting, if a little confusing, because we are not told that these are his memories of life when he was an infant. We are told they were a collection of Jews that were born in a Jewish country in the 70s or 80s; most of them were born there, and they share a common Jewish history and faith. This Jewish culture was an integral part of the Jewish religion, and he came through it in the 70s and became very familiar with it, and to come back. Some of these young Jewish leaders saw him as their only hope and wanted him back. He eventually lost interest. However the rest of them have not made any effort to come back to him; they have just left the Jewish nation together, and his family has never left the country, to be with these people, or even their children. It seems at this point that he does not see it that way. He only sees that they are his