Night

             The book Night bye Elie Wiesel was one that will make anybody think constantly after reading it. This wasn't as long book but a powerful one. The book is about the real life experiences of the author as he lived through the concentration camps of World War 2.
             The book starts off talking about a poor man named Moché the Beadle, who lives in Sighet, Transylvania, which is the narrator's hometown. Moché works in the Hasidic synagogue. When the narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, is twelve, he wants to study the cabbala, but his father tells him that he is too young. Eliezer has two older sisters, Hilda and Béa, and Tzipora which is younger. Despite his father's lack of support, Eliezer decides to study the cabbala anyway and chooses Moché as his teacher. Moché teaches him not to search for answers from God, but rather to try to ask the right questions.
             Moche escapes for a concentration camp and warns the people of Sighet, but no one believes him. None of the Jews consider anything happening that involves the Nazi's trying to erase a whole race. Then the worst happens and the Jews are forced to leave to an unknown place, the concentration camps. Next they are put on a train and transported. They all thought they were going to a place in Hungary but then realized that's not where they ended up. People are losing there minds on the train after being separated from family.
             They arrive to the camps and the men and women are separated. Eliezer sees his mother and sisters pulled away and vanish. He is afraid to lose his father so he holds onto him. Another prisoner tells Eliezer to say that he is eighteen even though he is only fourteen and that his father is forty even though he is fifty. The prisoners who have been at Auschwitz for awhile are mean to the new prisoners, and one of them tells them about the crematory. Then, everyone is forced to march past an officer, who uses...

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