Shelf Life

Night by Elie Wiesel is a story about Wiesel’s life in the Nazi concentration camps. The setting of the book Night by Elie Wiesel is the Holocaust. The book’s themes include deportations, denial, optimism, false hope, and God. Night is enjoyable and has something for everyone. He is a 15 year old boy when he is sent to the concentration camp of Auschwitz with his father. His father and him are separated from his mother and sisters forever. It is a very powerful book because of all of the description that takes place in the novel. The first day Wiesel goes to the camp he sees babies being burned in pitches of fire. Wiesel changes a lot through out the novel his faith in God is gone in the middle of the novel but in the end Wiesel’s ability to believe in himself lets him believe in his God again. Wiesel’s experiences described in the novel show the causes and the degree to which the Jewish prisoners in the concentration camp were dehumanized and how many of those prisoners who survived were permanently scarred.

By Perveen Mann