Night

The protagonist of the story is Eliezer, a 15 year old boy who is sent to four concentration camps starting in the Spring of 1944 until he is freed by American troops in April of 1945. He lived in a town called Sighet in Transylvania. He is a scholarly teenager who is studying the Talmud when he is captured by the Germans. He witnesses the death of his family and many others.

The protagonist’s conflict’s are with himself for having survived the death camps, and with his belief in a God who could have allowed these horrible events to occur. Eliezer loses his innocence and learns how absolutely evil men can become when their own survival is tested

The ten steps that explain the main events in the story are: (1.) In the Spring of 1944, the Germans take over the town of Sighet. (2.) All Jews must wear yellow stars and are sent to one of the two ghettos set up in Sighet. (3.) Eliezer and his family are put in cattle cars and taken to Birkenau, a reception center for Auschw...