“Night” was a very interesting View of the Holocaust, You were able to understand the pure terror that the prisoners had to go through. You could feel the emotion that Elie had as he told the story, The book makes you feel as if you were there, watching the pain they had to go through. It gives you a sense of how blessed and fortunate you are to not have had to go through that. Towards the beginning of the story, when they arrive off the train, Elie is separated from his mother and his sisters He and his father go to the left, and the rest of his family went to the right. This must have been very hard to deal with. Leaving your mother, would be very hard to deal with at a time like that His father must have been devastated as well, because his wife and most of his kids had to leave him.
Also when they arrive, they see a chimney with smoke coming out. They can smell burning flesh and it is not a pleasant smell. An inmate comes up to then and tells them that they will be thrown in the flames and that will be their gravel Hearing this would be heart wrenching and unbearable. To think of being burned alive is terrible, When they get close to the chimney they wind up passing it and continuing on to another part of the camp. They were relieved. When Elie gets injured he has to be operated on, Two weeks after the operation, he finds out that the Camp is being evacuated.
At first, he thinks this is good, but then from another in» jured inmate he hears that the sick and injured will be killed off Hearing this he leaves the hospital and evacuates as normal. When everyone was liberated he finds out that the sick were liber- ated by the Russians He could have been saved and not have went through all the marching If he would have done that he would not have been with is father for the last couple days of his life. In closing, the book was very informative and interesting, You can really see how Auschwitz was a terrible place It must have been very hard for Elie to deal with all of what he faced at his age He is very blessed to have survived, This book showed how families were bro- ken up and how hard it was to leave the ones you love
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