Night is based on a true story and describes the real life conditions of the Nazi concentration camps. The author, Elie Wiesel, describes his dreadful experiences he had in the concentration camps.
             The story begins with Elie talking about his old tutor Moshe the Beadle. He is very close to him and talks to him often. When he needed advice he would go to Moshe. One day Hungarian police arrested Moshe along with other foreigners and took them away on cattle cars. When Moshe returns he tells the people of the fate of the exile after they arrive in Poland. Later on Moshe was shot in the leg and assumed to be dead. Elie weeps for he will never see Moshe, his tutor, again.
             German officers come along and force the Jews into Ghettos surrounded by barbed wire. They place anti-Semitic laws on the Jews that prohibit them from going to restaurants, trains, and synagogues.
             Elie and his family are deported. They have very little food and water. On the trip, a woman known as Madame Schachter, insanely cries out about visions of burning. When they reach the destination, officers tell them false information about the situation. As Elie walks he can smell the retched smells of burning flesh.
             Elie and his father are separated from Elie's mother and sister. They are on an inspection line and a fellow Jew tells Elie to tell the SS officers that he is 18, not 14. He also tells Elie's father to say he is a whole decade younger. Elie and his father survive and are brought to the camp. On their was they see babies and humans being thrown into the flames of the crematory.
             At the camp Elie is instructed that his gold crowned tooth mush be removed. He gets out of this by faking a fever. After this he sees an SS officer with a naked girl in bed. He is caught staring and laughing and is beaten.
             Yom Kippur comes around but Elie and his father do not fast for they need all the food they can get. Elie begins to lose h...