Back to category: History Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Night by ELie Weisel Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel on his accounts of the Holocaust. This book covers one of the most gruesome and terrifying moments in history. The way humans were treated by the Nazis and Hitler was not human itself. Wiesel does a fabulous job of putting into words the emotion of fear. Eliezer Wiesel is a twelve-year-old boy living in Sighet, Transylvania, at the start of World War II. He is very interested and wants to study Jewish mysticism. His father, who is a prominent leader of the Jewish community, thinks that he is too young. Nevertheless, Eliezer starts studying the Cabbala with Moché the Beadle, a poor and humble man who works in the Hasidic temple. Moché teaches him that he must seek to ask God the right questions even though we will never understand the answers he gives us. Despite ominous signs, the Jews in Sighet refuse to believe that the Fascists could ever do anything to hurt them. Moché is deported along with other non-Hungarians and taken to a conc... Posted by: Chad Boger Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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