Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a very dark novel. It is about the horrific events of the holocaust during world war two, as seen through the eyes of a young Jewish boy. Living through the horrifying experiences in the German concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Elie sees his family, friends and fellow Jews starved, degraded, and murdered. In this essay, we will do a general study on the novel, including biographical information on the author, the setting in which the story takes place, along with a plot summary and several themes. Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania on September 30, 1928. He had two older sisters Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister named Tzipora. Elie speaks a language called Yiddish at home, and he speaks Hungarian, Romanian, and German outside he also learned classical Hebrew at school. In his early years, he devoted much of his time studying religion, although his father encouraged him to study modern Hebrew and secular subjects. Elie had been separated from his mother and younger sister when he was 15 and never saw them again, his two older sisters survived the whole ordeal. During the following year, Elie was moved to the concentration camps at Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. He managed to stay with his father the entire time until his father died in the 40 mile march between concentration camps in the dead of winter. In the year 1945, Elie was rescued by the United States third army. He lived in an orphanage for a few years until he started his study on literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris. He supported himself as a choirmaster and teacher of Hebrew, and he became a journalist, writing for the French newspaper L'Arche and the Israeli Yediot Ahronot. Elie had vowed never to write about his horrific Holocaust experiences, but in 1955, after meeting the French Catholic novelist Francois Mauriac he decided to put his
             experiences on paper. His book was originall...