Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet in Transylvania, and was still a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Buchenwald. His father was a prominent leader in the Sighet Jewish community, and even he doubted the stories of atrocity that Moshe told. Following WWII, he moved to Paris, where he took up French, and eventually his journalism career led him to Israel. After a decade, he finally settled in the United States, where he was soon reunited with his sister, who had been living in Canada. Night is the story of Elie WieselÕs life, and also a profound portraiture of the Jewish Holocaust during World-War II. He received the Nobel Piece Prize in 1986 and has written a total of 21 books, this being his first.
             WieselÕs primary intention in Night is to accurately portray the atrocities of the World-War II holocaust, and to impose such a moving image on the reader (and society), that something this horrible must be prevented at all costs in the future. He accomplishes this by excellent narration of events, the portrayal of charactersÕ feelings and emotions, and also adds a twist with a large amount of foreshadowing. The combination of these literary methods and WieselÕs intense experience with the Nazis and the concentration camps makes for a profound book with an amazing story behind it.
             WieselÕs excellent narration of events during his experience at Nazi concentration camps really adds more meaning to the story. By using well-chosen descriptive words he can accurately describe almost any situation, no matter how complex it may be. Part of the reason he is able to do this is his descriptions of characters, as the portraiture of the scene and of characters and their emotions come together to create the mood. Wiesel also uses word-choice throughout the plot in order to create the illusion that time is passing very slowly or very slowly (for example, the read...