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= = ==On This Night  of a Thousand Bleeding Stars ==

Elie Weisel By: Sarah Heinrich and Kristian Golick

Summary
 Eilizer Wiesel was a 15 year old Jewish boy that is brought to the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. He was separated from his mother and younger sister at Birkenau, so him and his father became workers at the camp along with multiple other Jewish men. He and his father go to multiple camps throughout the period of World War II. He meets friends along his journey of pain, and suffers the death of these of many people he meets. At Buchenwald, the last concentration camp, he suffers the loss of his father which was his only reason to live. Just when he thought things were over, the American forces bombed the camp and liberated all the Jewish prisoners.

Setting

 * Takes place in German and Polish Concentration Camps:
 * Birkenau
 * Buna
 * Gleiwitz
 * Buchenwald
 * During World War II

Tone

 * First Person Speaking
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The emotions he was speaking were
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Horrified
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Scared
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brave
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Determined
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Auto-Biography

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Personal Analysis- Kristian Golick
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Personally I am glad I picked this novel over "Of Mice and Men" because even though I saw "Of Mice and Men" and it was great, I loved "Night" because of the intense events that Elizer had to face and over come with such strength and endurance. I especially enjoyed the gradual change in Eilizer's personality. At first he was just concerned with being with his father and his father taking care of him, but as the book goes on, he and his father need each other in order to survive.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Personal Analysis- Sarah Heinrich
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I really enjoyed reading the novel "Night" because it was a very personal account of the Holocaust and World War II and all the events that occurred during that time. Learning about these events in Social Studies class, I learned all of the historical events that occurred, but I never really acquired a personal account on the event. "Night" really gave a personal insight into the Holocaust and all of the events the Elie Weisel had to go through.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Main Characters-

 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elieze ****<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">r **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- the narrator of Night, as he witnesses the Holocaust he begins to be robbed of his faith in God, gets exposed to the most inhumane things humanly possible, remains loyal and faithful to his father throughout his experience. Elie Wiesel Biography
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Eliezer's father, Chlomo **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- respected man by the Jewish community of Sighet, tries to remain close to his son during his time in many camps.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mosche the Beadle **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- teachers Eliezer Jewish mystiscism, captured by German soldiers and then escapes to warn the others of the horror that is ahead of them.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Madam Schachte **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">r- deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer, claims that she sees furnaces and fires through the train windows but no one believes, ironically, as soon as the cattle car arrives, they discover the creamatories.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Juliek **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- violin player who Eliezer meets in Auschwitz.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dr. Josef Mengele **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- doctor that presided over the selections at Auschwitz, also directed horrific experiments on Jews that arrived at the camps.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Idek **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Eliezer's Kapo at the electrical plant at Buna, was as cruel to Eliezer as the German soldiers were.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Franek **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Eliezer's forman at Buna.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Symbols-

 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fire **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- The fire appears throught the novel "Night and symbolizes cruel power. Madame Schachter sees the fire and tries to warn the passengers of the danger that is ahead of them. Eliezer tthen sees adults, babies, and children being burned in the crematories throughout his time at the diffrerent camps.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Nigh **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">t- Darkness and night represents a world without God and Eliezer states that he begins to doubt his faith in God when the most horrific events at the camp occur, which occur at night.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Eliezer's struggle to keep his faith in God is evident throughout "Night." During the beginning of the novel, his faith is his strong and undoubtable. Eliezer cannot imagine his life without God, but during his time at the death camps, his faith is shaken by the horrors he witnesses. Seeing all the horrible events at the death camps, he begisn to believe that there is no God, because God would never create such horrible events. =====