Night During The Day Book Report

Night During the Day “I became A-7713. After that I had no other name” (Wiesel). Imagine living in a place where you were called a number instead of your name. In Night, by Elie Wiesel, he writes that this is an everyday occurrence in his memoir about living in concentration camps. This novel tells readers exactly how it was living in a concentration camp at every hour of the day. Wiesel explains his journey from days before he was taken, all the way to the day the war ended and he was able to get out of the concentration camp. Originally, Elie wrote an 800 page story in Yiddish, but one of his kin edited it making it into the story it is today. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Holocaust or curious about what it was like. Night begins with Elie Wiesel in his hometown of Sighet; however, a couple days after the story begins, he is kidnapped. Called Eliezer in the novel, he is then taken to several different concentration camps: Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Wiesel’s sisters and mother were taken somewhere separate than himself and his father. He later found out that they were killed. Everyday, Eliezer and his father would work hard to make sure they were guaranteed to not get selected to be killed. Each concentration camp would
randomly kill the people who are not in shape everyday, because to the guards, they just took up space. Just about every time Wiesel was switched into a different concentration camp, he had the feeling that he would be killed. Throughout the memoir, Eliezer explains how when he started losing faith, he would pray repetitively to keep his life. Even though he went through a great struggle, it is very easy for the reader to interpret the fight he gave to make sure he made it out alive. I find it very important that Wiesel had this mindset, because without it, he might not have made it out alive. His father worked alongside him just about everyday. It was very important to Eliezer that he was able to check up on his father since that is the last of his family that survived. Wiesel made it very clear to the reader that no matter what happens, he has to help his father survive since he is only getting older and weaker by the day.
I believe that not only did this memoir educate the reader about the holocaust, but also about figuring out what your priorities are.
Eliezer Wiesel made it clear throughout the novel that he had to focus on himself surviving, and also making sure his father is taking care of himself. He also made that clear by the tone he was using. Although Night can be difficult to understand at some points, it is a book that everyone should read at some point in their life. For today’s society, it would be good for them to realize the importance of life and how good they have it compared to other times in history. This generation needs to remember that it could always be
worse.