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//Night// =In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Eliezer and his family are shuffled, along with the rest of their neighborhood, aboard cramped and dirty train cars meant for cattle, only to get separated into groups, first by men and women, then to either work or be killed. The journey to the camps is treacherous, there is very limited space, filthy conditions, and meager amounts of food. //Night// is the story of a young boy fighting to stave off death and keep his faith.=

**CHARACTERS**

//**Eliezer**//-- A young Jew who was really interested in caballah, the Jewish mysticism. Through his struggles and hardships in the camps he questions and loses his faith of God. He is fearful of losing his father because he already lost Tzipora, his sister, and his mumsy dearest. //**Eliezer's Father**//-- A strapping Jew who never loses his faith thinking that God is still watching over them. He is extremely protective of Elie even to his death. //**Moshe the Beadle**//-- A homeless Jew who lived in Elie's town. He was an experienced cabbalist who agrees to teach Elie the ways of cabbalism. He was taken by the Polish police and he tried to warn the towns folk about the incoming Nazi and Poles. No one took him seriously and thought he had gone mad. //**Madame Schachter**//-- She goes into fits of uncontrollable psychosis and mania. She hallucinates and sees fires in the night. She predicts that the fore will burn the Jews. It can be taken that she, somehow, invisions the incinorators that were the death of many Jews. She was seperated from her family. She was beat until she was quiet but she was right about the smoke and the furnace fires. This is an example of forshadowing because they all see the smoke rising and they stop and stare. //**Sr. Joseph Megele**//-- "The Angel of Death"; He was a Nazi scientist working on the art of eugenics. He was very sadistic and performed experiments on the Jewish prisoners. //**Rabbi Eliahou**//-- His son let him fall behind on one of the marches just to be riddened of the burden. Elie, at his father's death side, started to think the same way. //**Franek**//-- Foreman of the musician's block //**Idek**//-- Capo who treated everyone well.
 * //Juliek//**-- A Jewish violinist who grew a close bond with Elie. He was etraordinarily talented at classical and he loved playing German compositions but was forbidden too. When he died his violin was broken.

In the beggining the setting is a community in Sighet, Translyvania. Soon after the start of the book, the Jews are forced to move into Jewish ghettos. From the ghetto they found out they were going to be deported from the country. The Jews Elie was grouped with moved from Auschwits and Birkenau to Buna.From Buna they were eventually relocated to Gleiwitz. At one point, gallows were set up in the center of the camp, and all prisoners were forced to bear witness to the hanging of a young boy accused of stealing food during an air raid. Then when Elie was in the hopital at Gleiwitz the Russian Liberation army was getting close and the Jews were forced to leave or stay and be incinerated with Buna. Elie and his father decided to leave with everyone else. The remaining healthy Jews were forced to run miles in the cold, harsh weather to get to the next camp, Gleiwitz. One by one, the men drop, too tired to go on, or frozen to death when they closed their eyes for a much needed rest. During the run, Rabbi Eliahou is abandoned by his son who runs ahead, as he believed that his father was holding him back and was a nuisance. Elie decides that he is never going to act like that to his father. It is later found out that the Russians liberated Buna two days later. Eventually, from Gleiwitz, the Jews are herded onto cattle cars once more to go to the last camp Elie shall see, Buchenwald. There they were liberated. After his father's death, Elie was forced to continue and suffer without the comfort of his only remaining relative.
 * __Summary, Description of Setting and Tone__**

The tone in the beginning was pretty happy unless you knew what was going to happen. Throughout the camps and marches the tone was of intense worry, but you realize Elie has to live because he wrote the book! When the nights fall it becomes very sinister and haunting and when there is a detail description of a death there is a macabre and plodding fear growing.

__**Symbols**__
Fire- death Darkness- being alone The hanging of the boy- death of God

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~__The struggle to maintain faith__: Eliezer’s struggle with his faith is a dominant conflict in Night. At the beginning of the book, his faith in God is absolute. After witnessing the babies being burned, he questions it, but when he witnesses a young innocent boy hanged, he comes to realize that God died at the gallows along with the boy.======

~__Cruel and inhumane treatment__: After experiencing such cruelty, Eliezer can no longer make sense of his world. He no longer believes in God, as He allowed all this neglect fall upon Eliezer.
I believe the book to be a good read, although it makes me want to cry at points. Reading this book makes me sick to think of how people believed that the Jewish population was to be hated and stepped upon like they were inferior to the Germans. I liked that Elie didn't hold back too much on details and gave us a look into the concentration/work camps. There wasn't anything that I didn't like. -Briana
 * __Critique:__**

Elie at Lehigh University