Brief Summary Of Night By Elie Wiesel

The book “Night” is a true story based on the author’s life, Elie Wiesel. The book takes you through his journey of WWII, and how the Nazis affected himself as well as his friends and family. This book paints a true picture of what it was like to grow up in Hungry during that time and how the Nazis were perceived at different points throughout the war. Throughout the book, he explains his journey with God as a Jewish boy and how he questions who God is and His plans for Wiesel. The first chapter introduces Eliezer as a young boy not yet thirteen, which is important to the Jewish religion. The chapter also introduces his father and mother, both shopkeepers and very devout Jews, and his two older sisters and one younger sister. Moshe the Beadle,
The horrible conditions made you cringe as you read the book, they included things like having no air to breath, no space to sit, and no food or water to eat and drink. They thought they were just being relocated but once they arrived at the Czechoslovakian border they knew that was no longer the case. Wiesel then describes a new character, a lady named Madame Schächter, who struggles with dealing her current fate and what is about to become of herself. She screams many nights, and is gagged or beaten by other people in her car so she will not make the Nazi soldiers angrier. The Jews on the train find out that they have reached Auschwitz station when they stop, but they have no idea what that means. The locals tell them it is a labor camp where they will be treated well and get to stay together as a family. As they arrive by train into the camp they see burning furnaces and smell horrible odors, to only find out that smell is burning human flesh. They have arrived at Birkenau a concentration camp that is the process center for arrivals at
Eliezer and his father help keep each other alive and moving throughout this journey. They finally arrive at the Gleiwitz camp, where they are forced and packed like sardines into a barricade. After no food or water, another selection occurs and his father is put into the group to die. Eliezer runs after this father and secretly is able to move back into the group that is to live. Later cattle cars arrive to move the prisoners, but they prisoners most throw the dead bodies out of the cars first before they get on. On their journey, Germans throw food at them to laugh at the prisoners killing each other for it. The cars arrive at Buchenwald, but only twelve out of the 100 men who were in Eliezer’s train car are still alive because they killed each other over food. This journey has taken so much out of Eliezer’s father that he has decided to give in to death. An air raid is coming so Eliezer leaves his father to die but the next day stubbles upon him still alive. His father has dysentery and cannot move from his bed, his food is stolen and the other prisoners beat him. One morning Eliezer wakes up to find out that his father has been moved to the crematory. Eliezer does not cry that his father is gone, which discomforts him but also makes him