Commentary On The Book Night By Elie Wiesel

“The first night at camp, which turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.”(32). Elie Wiesel wrote those words in his autobiography about the time he spent in concentration camps, and the hardships he went through during World War II. It started from the first time the Germans came to the little village of Sighet, Transylvania where he lived at the time, all the way until he was liberated. Night is an educational book about true events Elie Wiesel experienced during the Holocaust, that everyone should read at least once in their lives.
The last two chapters are the most important and riveting points during Elie’s life in the concentration camps. It was at this point where he and his father had arrived

at a new concentration camp, Buchenwald, by train. After that long, brutally cold train ride, only a dozen of the 100 people who had boarded his car survived. Alongside being malnourished and with his old age as a factor, Elie's father contracted dysentery from drinking unsanitary water. This caused him to dispose of all the water in his body and need more therefore, the unsanitary water worsened his condition. While his father grew weaker, Elie did everything in his power to help his father recover. When the doctors came and examined his father, the other bunk mates stated that “the doctors won’t do anything for him.” “The doctors can’t do anything for him, now.”(105). During that night, the guards took his father away to the crematorium. From here on out, food was the only thing that mattered to Elie in the concentration camps.