Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Night by Elie Wiesel

28 reviews

karendarias's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

thattheatrekid's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I read this for class and will never regret it. Wiesel is a masterful writer. It feels like you’re reading a novel as he relays his real experiences in such a real way. The violence is not grotesque at all, simply stated in a matter-of-fact way. The way this book emphasizes the emotional and psychological developments of the Holocaust victims really punches in the impact of what happened. I wept when they arrived at Auschwitz and walked with Wiesel through his words. I don’t care what your personal reading preferences or sensitive topics are; read this book. We are here. We will never stay silent. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Death of parent, Police brutality, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, and Suicidal thoughts

nila's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, War, and Violence

mandi4886's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Ableism, Classism, Deportation, Excrement, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Suicide

lajoy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Police brutality, and Torture

kylajaynebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Racism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Vomit, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, and Injury/Injury detail

alisonannk's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Antisemitism, Confinement, Hate crime, Medical trauma, War, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, War, Physical abuse, Child death, Murder, Xenophobia, Racism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Torture, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Blood and Police brutality

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

casmurphy's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Grief, Violence, War, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Death, Hate crime, Medical content, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Murder, Genocide, and Torture

literaryjunarin's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

"I pinched myself: Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?"

It was written and translated simply and unsentimentally. I was tense the whole time. I found myself asking the same questions he asked, "For God's sake, where is God?".

Even today, after all the stories I've read about the war, I still can't understand why that happened. Or how humans were capable of doing those horrendous things. Or why the victims had to suffer.

I really can't wrap my brain around this. How SS officers could throw infants in the air as targets for machine guns, how German girls can pass love letters to the soldiers that marched starving prisoners, how those who saw the prisoners threw bread into their cattle cars just to watch the spectacle of the prisoners killing each other for bread.

Maybe we'll never comprehend it, but we must remember that this happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Antisemitism, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death