Night

Night is a first-hand recollection of the Holocaust, and dear god, is it graphic. It is a book that is created by a survivor of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel. This book, contains imagery and knowledge that no one would want to hear, but still should. Night teaches you about so about so much more things than you could ever read from a 3 paged article about the Holocaust. It gives you an immense level of understanding that one-sentenced facts can’t give. It puts you in Elie’s shoes. It shows you, with imagery, how cruel the Holocaust period was.

I haven’t read much of the book, so I won’t really know much about the entire thing. But from what I have read so far, it’s very graphic. It’s also what you’d expect from a book about the Holocaust. This survivor’s story is very unique, it almost seems unreal.

Elie began his story with his experiences before the ghetto, and even before the decrees. I believe that he wanted us to understand the difference that the Holocaust created in their life. Now that I actually think about, it really does seem like a dream. Not even a month has past between his regular life, and being transported to a ghetto then facing the horrors of a concentration camp. That sounds absurd. One moment of your life, you’re living peacefully, next, the Hungarian Police just tell you to go outside and march for hours. That change, would be unbearable. Then, about a couple weeks after, he got transported to a Concentration Camp where he smelled fresh blood. His story… It sounds like a nightmare. If I didn’t know any better, I would really think that this story was a work of fiction, because it’s just so absurd.