Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Night (Oprah's Book Club)
Book Review: A One Sitting Read
Summary: 5 Stars
What a heart wrenching book. Its not easy to put down, very sad and emotional, but allows the world to see what happened to a family during Nazi Germany. I would recommed for the world to read!Book Review: A Painfully Honest Memoir
Summary: 5 Stars
Wiesel's famous book about his horrifying experiences in a concentration camp truly deserves its accolades. Having read this book years ago, I did pick it up again because Oprah had chosen it. But the spare writing and the vivid portrayals were just as moving as I'd remembered. Wiesel does not waste words and he doesn't mince them either; he is frank about his degeneration into a person obsessed with survival and the misery of watching his father's slow death. My heart broke for the loss of innocence that can never be recovered and man's cruelty to man. Wiesel is to be commended for sharing this tale in so honest a manner. Maybe it's some comfort to him to know that others have benefited from it. Highly, highly recommended.Book Review: A Powerful Night
Summary: 5 Stars
Elie Wiesel was removed from his home as a mere teenager when German soldiers took his Jewish family away from Transylvania and into the night. Elie, who was separated from his mother and sister at the dreaded concentration camp of Auschwitz, was forced to survive on his own in this new, terrifying world. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrated the strength of his book and influenced you to enjoy the powerful writing of his book.
Night is a true account of Elie Wiesel's life and how the German Nazis metamorphosed the Jewish people into objects and property with no hope of surviving. On just the first night of their arrival at Auschwitz, his mother, sister, and all of the other women and children were thrown into a fire and burned alive. The men, who watched this terrible procedure, were kept alive and forced to pull heavy slabs of stone on small carts while only getting fed a small ration of bread and water once a day. As I was reading this book, I could feel the Jews hopelessness and severe sadness running through me because I could tell that the Jews hope of surviving was the chance of me pulling a needle out of a haystack.
Night was a terrifying story of the horror that the Germans made the Jews undergo after deliberately taking them from their homes and changing them from humans into objects with no feelings or hope. Although Night was an extremely sad book, I liked it because it was so powerful, and Elie Wiesel made the reader realize and understand what really happened during the horrifying years of the holocaust.
Book Review: A Quick Yet Heartfelt Read
Summary: 4 Stars
I had seen Mr. Wiesel on Oprah and was so impressed with his way with the American words, even though he is from another land. He is a very intelligent man. To have lived through what he did and to be yet so confused by it all is so unknown to me. He must, after all these years, still question every day of his existence, "why me", why was I to live. The book itself is written to be just enough information to open your eyes, but make you want to learn more about the beginnings of many more of the people who were either survivors or not. He writes the book to help himself, but yet I can see where it will help many others to be more compassionate. I am now reading "Dawn", another read by Mr. Wiesel.Book Review: A Real Life Story To Remember
Summary: 5 Stars
Elie Wiesel conveys the real life horrors of life in a Nazi Concentration Camp. As a teenage boy, Elie and his family are taken by force to one of Hitler's numerous death camps scattered throughout Eastern Europe. Soon after entering Auschwitz, Elie and his father are separated from his mother and little sister. He would never again see his mother and sister. Elie shares how he survived the daily struggles of camp life despite the unspeakable and inhumane treatment by his captors. Amazingly, Elie and his Father manage to remain physically close until just a few months before the camps were liberated. No doubt, their mutual support contributed greatly to their individual survival.
In this book, Elie depicts in vivid and verbally graphic detail, the essence of what it meant to be a doomed Jew, sentenced to life and ultimately death in a living hell on Earth. From the pungency of the crematoriums to the agonizing screams of human suffering, the reader can vicariously experience this hell, and thus gain a better empathy for victims of the Holocaust. Victims who were robbed of everything including both personal dignity and the God given right to be treated as humans.
Elie Wiesel's "Night" should be read by this generation and generations to come. Elie's story needs to be told and told again. By doing so, hopefully, this ultimate atrocity against humans will not only be remembered, but lessons will be learned from it as well. Lest history be obliged to repeat itself.