Elie Wiesel's Night

Pros: Gripping true account of the evils of Nazi Germany
Cons: Nothing

Night by Elie Weisel is a personal account of the holocaust as seen through the eyes of a teenager. This new edition has been translated by Marion Weisel , the author’s wife. It is a closer account to the original manuscript. The memoir is the ...

Pros: Up close look at the brutality of the Holocaust
Cons: None, only regret that this book is necessary.

The recent attack on Elie Wiesel by a modern-day Holocaust denier reminded me that I'd never read his masterpiece, "Night," and so when my daughter brought it home for a school project, I borrowed it and raced through it. It is a stunningly ...

Pros: This Book Kept Me Interested Till the End...
Cons: Graphic Details, Very Sad...

It was a few weeks ago in my 10th grade English class that my teacher decided to give my class a book to read called "Night" and then we would be tested on it. I rarely enjoy reading books assigned to me, so I was angry with my teacher. Now don't get me...

Pros: Short, Terse, Informative, Detailed
Cons: none

Night: By Elie Wiesel
Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
Night is a story written in first person by a man who has survived torturous concentration camps during World War II. It tells in meticulous detail the hardships and...

Pros: has a great message
Cons: very gruesome

My English composition teacher asked me to write an essay on any non fiction book I preferred. After giving it some thought, I decided to choose Night By Elie Wiesel. I have always been interested in the Holocaust so the book was a perfect fit. After ...

Pros: The reality of Nazi death camp horror from an author that experienced these cruelties.
Cons: It is hard to believe that the horrors in this book are true.

This book provides the reality of Nazi death camp horror of a young Jewish boy, Elie Wiesel. I read this book for a college course and believe that this is a must read book for young adults in the target range of 14-21 years of age. This story shows the cruelty and injustices that Jewish people suffered in concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This story covers Elie Wiesel from a young boy until three days after the liberation of Buchenwald. This book makes no attempt to hide the cruelties of the Nazi concentration camps. The realities of being separated from family members, living with little food and water, working with scarce clothes in the winter, witnessing a rape of a Jewish girl, and witnessing the death of a father are all exposed in this book. I don't think any book provides a better reality check of the injustices and cruelties that Jewish people suffered in concentration camps.