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superducky800's review against another edition
5.0
I don't know how to rate this because it is so horrifying...I read it twice for school and both times it was utterly devastating and terrifying. It is an incredibly important book that everyone should read. But no one, I repeat, NO ONE, should ever have to read this alone.
spectracommunist's review against another edition
5.0
Night is a heartbreaking unnerving account by Eliezor as a teenager, who survived horrific concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Birkenau and Buna. This intense and terribly realistic narration is a painful son-father tale about fear, hatred, religion and humanity. Wiesel's description of every thought and apathetic attitude pushes the reader from his role of an observer to an active participant.
After reading this I just wanna say 'I love my mom's handmade soup!' :)
I recommend this to everyone as to forget the sacrificed would be akin to killing them a second time.
After reading this I just wanna say 'I love my mom's handmade soup!' :)
I recommend this to everyone as to forget the sacrificed would be akin to killing them a second time.
strategineer's review against another edition
5.0
Elie Wiesel's Night is a retelling of what happened to him during World War 2; in a Nazi death camp, he witnesses the death of his family, the death of his innocence and the death of his God. Night shows you evil at its peak and convinces you that this horror must never be allowed to happen again.
If more people read Night, there would be fewer fascists in the world.
It's a powerful book that's very hard to forget. I experienced the tiniest fraction of the Holocaust vicariously through Elie Wiesel's account of what happened to him during World War 2, and even trying to remember how I felt when I read Night leaves me physically shook and deeply sad.
It's not an easy read but now more than ever you have an obligation to read it to make it clear to you what happens when the fascists take over.
I haven't read the other two novels in this collection but I should.
If more people read Night, there would be fewer fascists in the world.
It's a powerful book that's very hard to forget. I experienced the tiniest fraction of the Holocaust vicariously through Elie Wiesel's account of what happened to him during World War 2, and even trying to remember how I felt when I read Night leaves me physically shook and deeply sad.
It's not an easy read but now more than ever you have an obligation to read it to make it clear to you what happens when the fascists take over.
I haven't read the other two novels in this collection but I should.
iceangel32's review against another edition
4.0
Night:
I have to admit it was just as hard to read the second time as it was to read the first. I still remember the shooting of the babies and the death of the children. I know those images will continue to stay with me forever. As I think of how hard it was to read and conceive of what happened in this book I think of how hard it was to live through and endure the circumstances in the book. It must have took incredible strength to write this story so that in some way all those lives were not forgotten.
Dawn:
Okay so day. Dawn was s very interesting story of a boy Elisha who was ordered to kill British officer because the British were executing a Jewish boy who was part of an underground movement to keep the Jews in Palestine and so they would have voice and no longer be quiet as they were persecuted. He is meet by all the ghosts of his past who teach him that they are all part of him. I think that that is the most interesting part of this story. How his past is there because they explain that what he does not only effects him but affects them too. This too was a powerful piece. Now on to day.
Day:
This was a story of an accident. Because of the car accident Elie learns to live. He realizes that he cannot hold on to the past and live in the future. He realizes that he is not only hurting himself but the others around him. This part of the book was the hardest for me to read. I don’t know if it is because it was the last of the three or because my faith is so different, but none the less it was the hardest for me.
I have to admit it was just as hard to read the second time as it was to read the first. I still remember the shooting of the babies and the death of the children. I know those images will continue to stay with me forever. As I think of how hard it was to read and conceive of what happened in this book I think of how hard it was to live through and endure the circumstances in the book. It must have took incredible strength to write this story so that in some way all those lives were not forgotten.
Dawn:
Okay so day. Dawn was s very interesting story of a boy Elisha who was ordered to kill British officer because the British were executing a Jewish boy who was part of an underground movement to keep the Jews in Palestine and so they would have voice and no longer be quiet as they were persecuted. He is meet by all the ghosts of his past who teach him that they are all part of him. I think that that is the most interesting part of this story. How his past is there because they explain that what he does not only effects him but affects them too. This too was a powerful piece. Now on to day.
Day:
This was a story of an accident. Because of the car accident Elie learns to live. He realizes that he cannot hold on to the past and live in the future. He realizes that he is not only hurting himself but the others around him. This part of the book was the hardest for me to read. I don’t know if it is because it was the last of the three or because my faith is so different, but none the less it was the hardest for me.
nmdplm31's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
heather_g's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Wow. Another haunting true story of a Jewish child during holocaust. Followed by two also sad, fictional stories of other people haunted by the past. Great writing. The Dawn was a bit odd and I also didn’t realize it was fictional right away, but overall good stories!
kcooper497's review against another edition
sad
medium-paced
3.0
Night was a great story, intriguing the whole time. The second and third book in the Trilogy were very slow and hard to finish.
kinzeebee's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
masterwork, no notes.