Night by Elie Wisel

Night is Elie Wiesel's testimony about his experience in the Holocaust. Night is narrated by a boy named Elizer who in this book represent Wiesel. Night is the story of a boy who survives the concentration camps, it also shows the emotional journey a Jewish boy to profoundly disenchanted young man who questions the existence of God because of the circumstances Jewish people faced in the concentration camps. The book starts in Transylvania where we see a fourteen year old boy trying to talk to his dad into let him study Kabbalah when his father tells him that he is too young to study. Nether less Elizer starts studying the Kabbalah with his friends Moche and Beadle.

Elizer and his friends gets separated when Moche is deported to the concentration camp. Later, Moche escapes and then come back to warn the town people but no one believes him, and think he is insane or just want attention. Germany invades Hungary, and the German Army arrives in Sighet. Elizer's father refuses to try to escape the country. Jews are forbidden from leaving their home for three days, and then crowded into two ghettos. All Jews were deported. Families refuses to be separated from one another. In the train the readers met another character, woman named Madame Schaechter she is a priest who can see future. She has also lost her two older sons, and her husband. In the train she starts to scream fire fire. The train arrives at the Birkenau, Auschwitz.

Upon the arrival of the Jews, Elizer is separated from his mother and sisters but manages to stay close to his father. The prisoners then march past the SS officer to one doctor who select the people who are healthy enough to be able to work and separated those people from the people who are not capable to work for instance the woman and children. It was decided by the Germans that people who are not able to work will go to the Crematory. Crematory is the place where all those prisoners will be burned alive whether they are kids or...