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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
challenging
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Night is a powerful and emotionally devastating account of the experiences of a Holocaust survivor, inspired by Wiesel's own time at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is a book of despair, of pain, of death, and of shame. One particularity painful moment, in a book of full of such moments, is when Eliezer feels a moment of freedom after the death of his father in Buchenwald. Previously, while being transported to Buchenwald, Eliezer witnessed a father and son brutally attack each other over a scrap of bread, and prays he never will forsake his father this way. This showcases how the Holocaust did not only strip victims of their lives, but perhaps even crueler, of their humanity as well. I found it surprising that Wiesel had little to say about the Germans as a whole in this novel, as it seems the majority of his hate and anger is focused on a God that could allow this to happen. Elie Wiesel's Night is a survivor's account, full of grief, guilt, and shame, and it stands as a monumental testament against the brutality of Fascism and genocide.
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Not the right read for e right now,will come back to it.
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reflective
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Violence, Antisemitism, War
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide
Minor: Car accident
This book was stunning. We all know the Holocaust happened and that it was a truly horrible thing. But we generally hear inspiring stories from survivors. The two fiction pieces in this collection are not stories of good coming out of evil. They depict what happens to people who witness so much horror they lose hope or feel guilty because they survived. A kick in the gut, but completely worth it.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
dark
sad
slow-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
sad
medium-paced