| 'Night' is Elie Wiesels' personal account of his experience of childhood in the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Born in a Hungarian ghetto, Elie was sent as a child to the Nazi death camps, and this book is his story of that atrocity; here he relates his childhood perceptions of an inhumanity that was as painful as it was absolute.
Many rumours fly around the small villiage of Transyilvania where Elie lives. Then one day, out of nowhere, German soldiers arrive. In a matter of weeks the Germans had taken over the small town. People were restricted in where they could go and were forced into smaller and smaller areas of land. Elie watched as his friends and relatives were taken away, "deported" to a secret location. Then one day they came for him. Elie and his family were forced from their home, all possesions stripped from them. They were completely at the hands of the Germans. The book tells of the terrifying experience of death and torture in the Nazi death camps. Elie relates from the eyes of a child what it was like to stay strong and keep going in those terrible, uncertain days. | ||
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Plot & Themes Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside) Ethnic/regional/gender Yes War/Cloak & Dagger story? - holocaust War/Spying Yes Period of greatest activity? - 1900+ Subject of Biography Gender - Male Ethnicity - Jew Nationality - Eastern European Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 () Small town? Yes Small town people: - nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee Misc setting - fort/military installation Century: - 1930's-1950's Writing Style Book makes you feel? - angry If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 76%-100% of book |
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