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Customer Rating:
Summary: Quick read that leaves a lasting impression
Comment: Night is a quick read that leaves a lasting impression. This is an eye opening well written account
of the authors experience during the war. It is hard to say that I enjoyed this book, but it was so
well written it was difficult to put down. I felt a connection to these people, I felt the anger
towards their aggressors. I found myself thinking "How could you do this to these people! What did
they ever do to you!" I almost felt like I was there experiencing these things even thought I could
never come close to understanding what it was like, no matter how well the book was written. The
feeling of despair and hopelessness as well as the loss of faith was so evident. Bravo to Mr Wiesel
for having the courage to recount these events on paper and share his experience with the world.

Customer Rating:
Summary: A very depressing, but meaningful story.
Comment: Night, by Elie Wiesel is a non-fiction story that takes tragedy to another level. It really does not
seem to be real, but this was apart of World War 2, more specifically, the Holocaust. This tells his
story of how he survived and how the rest of his family did not.

It starts when he was
small, he was living a decent life, his father owned a shop. But when the Germans walked through the
streets with guns in their hands, he didn't know what it meant, but his parents were getting
worried. Later on, he knew exactly what it meant when the Germans passed by.

He waited
a long time until he was sent on a train with a very little food or anything for that matter. Not
many people survived that ride, they were willing to commit suicide because the couldn't take it
anymore. Another reason was because of starvation, or dehydration, most of the people there couldn't
live under those conditions.

When they arrived, they first separated the men from the
women. That meant he had to leave his mother and his 2 sisters. It was only him and his father. It
was hard, but he had to get used to it. As time went on, people had to strip themselves and run
laps, and get new clothes. Then, they got assigned jobs.

As time went on, his father
was just getting weaker and weaker as inspections went on. You would see more people on the ground
dead.

Then, one horrid night, the generals told them to get out of bed in the middle
of the night and run many miles in the blizzard to another camp. That night was like no other. He
actually saw people die.

Nothing is happy about this story. It breaks your heart,
especially because it is all true. It is the perfect story to read.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Night
Comment: I couldn't put it down. You should send a complimentary copy to Mel Gibsonb

Customer Rating:
Summary: A great book--But should not be marketed as 100% nonfiction
Comment: I bought this book at Borders and was under the impression that it was 100% true. Nowhere on the
cover nor inside is it mentioned that this is partially fictitious. Therefore, I feel like I've been
duped. I didn't know that this book was considered a "novel" until I came onto this website and read
the other reviews.
This fact does not diminish the power of the book, however. It is a sad,
depressing, and difficult read, but worth it. Mr. Weisel addresses one of the most universal
theological questions: Why do bad things happen to good people? If God is just and loving, how could
something like the holocaust even come to pass? The young narrator cannot answer these questions,
and neither can we. The final scene between the narrator and his father is heartbreaking. He
"denies" his father in much the same way that Peter denied Jesus in the New Testament. I'm not sure
whether the author intended this parallel or not, but the comparison is chilling.
The most
frightening thing is that there have been many "holocausts" since this one--in Rwanda, in Eastern
Europe under Milosevich, etc. Is the desire to hurt and kill others, the desire to make war, an
instinctively human trait? We hope not, but this book reminds us of the horrors one human being can
bestow on another.
This book iillustrates both the limitlessness of human suffering and the
limitlessness of human cruelty. However, it also shows how a person can rise up and move beyond his
past. I would highly recommend this book and wish it had been read in my high school instead of the
junk they assigned to us back then. I am just a little upset that this book is marketed as
nonfiction when it is not 100% true. I will think twice before I buy another book from this
publisher. I don't appreciate being misled.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very worthwhile
Comment: This is very sad, but I think it is important that we all are reminded about the terrible pain and
suffering that was endured by so many.