Brief Summary Of Elie Wiesel's Book Night

Book Summary

The book night mainly takes place at a concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany. A jewish boy named Elie Wiesel lives with his family, but suddenly at midnight they are taken to a concentration camp. Elie and his father Chlomo are separated form the women of their family. With not much time being there, the men are forced to work at a factory at the camp. Due to the Russian forces moving closer to the current camp their at, they are forced to leave to Buna, Germany. The prisoners are left to run 60 kilometers through the freezing cold weather. From this, Elie's father happens to be quite ill. The Wiesel family boards a train for 10 days, and arrive to another camp in Buchenwald, Germany. As Elie and his father share a bunk bed

to sleep. Elie falls asleep and awakes to the slow death of his father, Chlomo.
Author Biography
He was Born in Sighet, Romania
Survived the holocaust during the 2nd world war
He is the Nobel Prize winning writer, and has won the Congressional Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty
He has an award after himself named the Elie Wiesel award
Has written 50+ books and the novel “Night” elected into Oprah's Book Club
Elie Wiesel had 3 sisters, a mother and a father
At age 15, he was sent to the German concentration camps
Literary Period
The book Night was written in 1956 during the “Beat Generation”
Which is a literary movement when authors started to talk about the WWII era
Elements of the Beat generation included narrative values, spiritual quest and exploration of American religions
In this time period, especially Wisel, used short or one word sentences in his writing to explain what he was feeling
Genre
Night can fall into 3 types of different genres such as
An autobiography (tells the book about a part of his life)
A memoir (concerned more with emotional facts than the truth)
A personal narrative (shorter than some books and offers a personal insight by the author)
Context or Topic
Never give up
Survival
Good vs.

Evil

Favourite

Quotation
When at last a grayish light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk deeply between the shoulders, crouching, piled one on top of the other, like a cemetery covered with snow. In the early dawn light, I tried to distinguish between the living and those who were no more. But there was barely a difference. My gaze remained fixed on someone who, eyes wide open, stared into space. His colorless face was covered with a layer of frost and snow. (98).
I like the this quote the best in the novel because the author really goes in detail and gives the feeling of what it is like to be there.

You can start to realize how horrible this situation is. Elie Wiesel is describing the little difference between the living people and the ones who have already died unfortunately.

Awards

Nobel Peace Prize award for writing (speaking out against racism, repression and violence)

Medal of Liberty

National Humanities Award

Congressional Gold medal

The “Elie Wiesel award” is named after him honouring all of his work during the past

Introductory Paragraph

Faith is the belief of having complete confidence in someone or something. However, faith also functions as the belief and loyalty in a religious system. In the novel Night by Nobel prize winning Elie Wiesel, faith is explored as a way to survive the holocaust. When a 15 year old Elie Wiesel gets taken to the German concentration camp, all goes wrong. He is surrounded by other Jewish people fighting for their own lives, during the no mercy given by the Nazis. While faith can provide a sense of hope in the real world, it differs in the context of the novel as it functions as a way to survive, provides hope and to help cope with the current

tragedy.