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Night by Elie Wiesel

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challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

3.75

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dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense

4.75

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5.0

I have been putting off this book for so long, for fear of exposing myself once again to the atrocities committed by the Nazis to the Jews uncensored. I'm glad I finally got myself to finish it. This book reminds me of the quote by George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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4.0

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

-Dylan Thomas

These, the first two stanzas of Thomas's poem, felt especially apt as an expression of the dignity and worth of these individuals that suffered so much (obviously enmeshed with my own hope and faith as well). Implied is my response to those who *think* they can hold dominion over others—to diminish or demean what God has created and called "good." (Also at times, in the words of e.e. cummings, felt some of "humanity, I hate you.") Death, wickedness, abuse, -fill in the blank- "shall have no dominion."

But until then, Humanity will, of course, continue to try...