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 * [|Elie Wiesel Foundation]

__Characters__


 * Eliezer**- the narrator of the book, he is a jewish boy who was taken by the nazi's to various concentration camps. He survives through this terrible time even though none of his family survived.
 * Eliezer's father**- he is a respected jew in his community and tries to stay with elizer throughout their stay in the concentration camps but looses his will to live at the end and dies.
 * Moshe the Beadle**- A mentor to Elizer to a different type of jewish beliefs, he is captured before in hometown is but when he tells his experience no one believes him.
 * Madame Schachter**- She has dreams of what horrible things will happens to all the jews on the train ride to the concentration camps but is beaten to silence because she is screaming obnoxiously because of her fear.
 * Dr. Megele**- evil Nazi doctor who performed horrible procedures on jews to test new methods or just to torture people.
 * Idek**- He was a "Kapo" which was a jewish prisoner put in charge of a group of prisoners by the Nazi's and he was just as cruel.
 * Franek**- Elizers foreman at Buna. He is the one who spots Eliezers gold tooth and insists on getting it pulled out.
 * Rabbi Eliahou**- jewish prisoner whos sons leave him and Elizer promises that he will never do that to his father.
 * Juliek**- A violin player met in concentration camp

__Summary__ In the begining of the book Elizer lives a normal middle class life in Sighet. He becomes interested in the teachings of Moshe the Beadle. The two become very close but it is broken when Moshe is deported. Moshe comes back to Sighet telling tales of horrible persecution against jews but no one believes him. The next spring the Nazi's occupied their town but still no one worried. Then they were forced into crampped ghettos but still no one worried. Then came the time for the jews to be deported in the train cars and then people were worried. The first concentration camp they arrived at(Auschwitz) Elizer was seperated from his mother and sister but he stayed with his father. He and his father were sent to a work camp called Buna because they were in good physical condition. Eliezer was put to hard work with little food given to him. They went through cruel treatment from the guards and they had to watch their fellow jews die next to them each day. They even had to watch the hanging of fellow jews for a rebel uprising. When the allied forces were closing in the Nazi's decided to take the Jews on death marches. They had to march to one and then they were herded onto train cars to another camp. Along one of these marches Elizer's father dies. Elizer did not even cry, he said he felt relieved because his dad was suffering. Elizer survived all the way until he was liberated by the allied forces.

__Setting/Tone__ The setting is first in Elizer's hometown of Sighet. Then the setting is in a numerous concentration camps where horrible events happen. The tone is the book is one of great pain and suffering. __Symbols__ The two symbols in the book are fire and night. Fire represents the cruel and destructive power of the nazi's. Night represents the power of God because he created light to get rid of darkness. Night represents the world without a God because that is what Elizer is feeling. Elizer is being punished for his beliefs and he feels that if his god was real he would not let this happen to him. __Themes__ One theme in the book is the difficulty to maintain faith in your religon. Elizer is being punished for being Jewish so he has very low faith in his God through out this experience. He could not believe that God would let humans create such horrible places such as concentration camps. If God is almighty he would have used his strength to stop the nazi's. Another theme is the creulty humans show towards other humans. We were not created to be animals and kill each other we are supposed to live life together as equals. __Opinion__ We believed the book showed a personal experience of the horrible events of the holocaust. We liked that he did not leave any details out of any events. Overall we enjoyed reading the book and would recomend that other readers read this book. We did not find any aspects of the book that we did not like.