Night Essays

The Cruelty in the Night (Reflection and summary of Elie Wiesel’s Night)

Eliezer, the narrator of the story was a twelve-year-old boy who grew up in a Jewish family. He was the only boy among four siblings and the third in rank. He is a very good Jewish boy who studies the Torah and follows what his father tells him. In the time of Holocaust wherein Hitler executes Jews...

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An S.S. Officer's View on Night

This whole situation started out simple enough. The men and myself first moved into a little town called Sighet. The people there seemed so naive. None of them realized what was about to happen; none of them realized what happened when the Germans move into town. We first started by imprisoning...

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Elie Wiesel's novel Night

In Elie Wiesel"s novel Night, the main character Elizer goes through a series of changes. Elizer, "Elie", is born in a town in Transylvania Hungary by the name of Sighet in 1928. Elie lives in a very highly orthodox Jewish family, and this shows in many of his personality traits and interest as a...

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