Reflection On Night By Elie Wiesel

Night by Elie Wiesel was rather short novel detailing Wiesel’s experience during Hitler’s reign and the Holocaust. Despite the fact that it was short, it not only conveyed the struggles and hardships that people went through during the Holocaust well, it also was written in a condensed yet powerful way. Even though I have never lost a loved one or seen people be killed in person, the events in Wiesel’s writing seemed oddly relatable. I felt his panic when his father was written down and I felt the sadness as the people Wiesel knew from before were slowly degrading into becoming hopeless like Akiba Drumer. The scene with Juliek and his violin in particular resonated with me, most likely because the emotion after seeing him dead with his broken