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​​ //Night// by Elie Wiesel

**__Summary:__** ====Night by Elie Wiesel is about a boy named Eliezer and his journey through the different concentration camps during World War II. In the book, Eliezer describes the harsh treatment and the hardships that they had to undergo in order to survive. The book gives a detailed account of how the Nazi's cruelly treated the Jewish people. Furthermore, how the Jewish people had to stick together and keep their faith in God. ====

**__ Characters: __**
 * **Eliezer:** Main character of the story. He is 15 years old when he is taken by the Nazi. He is the narrator in the book. He has the will to survive. He is loyal to his father and because of his father he survives the holocaust. He struggles to maintain his faith throughout the book. He is strong willed and overcomes physical pain to survive.
 * **Eliezer's Father: He is a store owner.** He is a cultured, unemotional man. but he is very concerned for his community. He is held in great esteem by the community and they look to him to solve their problems. His will to survive is his son. He is very weak and struggles to stay alive. He does not survive to be liberated.
 * **Moshe the Beadle:** He was poor man. But rich in his religious knowledge and Jewish faith. He warns the Jews about the German's and encourages them to leave, but the Jewish people do not listen. He was a religious man who believed that the answers to questions comes fom within ourselves. He was a teacher to Eliezer on matters of faith and taught him to pray. He lost his faith after he wittness the killing of jews by the Gestapo.
 * **Madame Schacter:** She is about fifty years old. She became separated from her husband and two sons, and only has her ten year old son left. She gone mad because of her loss, and keeps screaming about a fire that is not there, this proves right as all witness the crematory at Birkenau.
 * **Juliek:** He is a polish Jew. He plays the violin and is told he cannot play German music, and Eliezer and him first meet in the block, then again among all of the corpses and were thrown on top of each other.
 * **Dr. Josef Megele:** He is a typical SS officer. He is intelligent but has a cruel face. He decides who lives and who dies. Helps to treat Eliezer for his leg, and tells him he can stay at the hospital if he wants.
 * **Rabbi Eliahou:** He was a Polish Rabi. He is well liked by all even the Kapo. Looks and asks for his son, not realizing that his son left him behind in order to survive.
 * **Franek:** He is Polish. He wanted Eliezer's gold tooth, and when Eliezer refused to give it up to him, Franek beat up Eliezer's father.
 * **Idek:** He was a mad officer of the Nazi. He beat Eliezer and his father. He beats Eliezer 25 strokes for sneaking up on him and a girl.

**__ Setting/Tone: __** Set in the 1940's, during WWII in Nazi Germany/Concentration Camps. Jews were evacuated from their houses and sent to live in Ghettos. The tone is dark, fearful, hopeless, suffering, and death.

Birkenau ||= Buna ||= Gleiwitz ||= Buchenwald || Eliezer's movements through the different concentration camps.
 * = Auschwitz/

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**__ Symbols: __**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Night:** Being away from society, "left in the dark", and there are almost always scary and unexpected things lurking in the dark.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Fire:** The death of anyone who either gave up or was killed, and the power of the Nazi's agains the Jewish people.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__ Themes and Supporting Evidence: __**
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Stuggle to Maintain Faith:** Eliezer struggles to maintain faith throughout his time in the concentration camps because he is constantly questioning God and why he is allowing such terrible things to happen to him, his family, and everyone else in the camps. He stops believing in nearly everything, and begins to not care about anything toward the end of his journey. The theme is to remain faithful to God, even through the bad times because not only is it a test, faith is what matters to stay alive.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Cruel and Inhumane Treatment:** The Jewish people are treated terribly, they are treated like worse than animals. The theme is you certainly shouldn't do to others what you wouldn't want.


 * __ Critique: __**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> We both liked Night. The book was very sad, but was an eye-opener to what really happened in the concentration camps and what it was like to live during that time. It made us think about how we view our families, and what we would do if we were in a situation like the boy's who abandoned their fathers simply for their own will to live.

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