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** Writen by: ** Elie Wiensel


 * Wiki Constructed By: ** Ryan Rago and Cody Starner

Chatacter Overview:


 * **__Eliezer:__** He is the author and the narrator of this book. He is fifteen years old when is sent to the concentration camps. Before he went he was very religious and believed in heavily in his religion. As he spends more and more time in the camps, he begins to dought himself and his religion. He is also a very caring about the people around but inside of the concentration camps he changes to the point that as his sickly father is getting beat up by the guards and he does not even flinch.


 * ** __Eliezer's Father:__ ** Before he went to the camps he was very involved with his community. He is a very strong man and he cares alot about what is going to happen to his people.He is father to Eliezer, Hidla, Bea, and Tzipora. He is fifty when he enters with his son at the first concentration camp. He and his son are the only ones to survive through most of the concentration camps. As he goes through the camps, they begin to wear him out. He becomes very weak and brittle. Eliezer refers many times to how his father has aged through out the camps. He dies a very slow death at Bruchenwald, his son is a whitness of this horable event. It was thought that his wife and three daughters went to the furnace and died at the beging of the first camp, Aushwitz.


 * __**Moshe the Beadle:**__ He is a good friend with Eliezer. He was captured by the German army, but he escaped. He came back to his community to try and warn everyone about what is about to happen to everyone. No one believes him.


 * __**Madame Schachter:**__ She was on the train car that Eliezer and his family were on. She has a mental breakdown in the train car. In the middle of the night she starts screaming "Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire!"(22). She does this for a few days until they get out of the train car at Aushwitz.


 * ** __Juliek:__ ** He and Eliezer m eet and became friends inside of the concentration camp. He is a young musician who dies after the death march to Gleiwitz.


 * **Dr. Josef Mengele** ** : ** He is a famously crule doctor. He is resbonsible for some of the death that occured at Aushwitz.


 * __**Rabbi Eiahou:**__ He and his son have a lasting impact on Eliezer. Rabbi Eiahou's son can not stand his father because the father is bring the son down. The son feels that he should be worring just about himself, but he also needs to check up on his dad. Eliezer hopes that will never have the same resement towards his father.

Summary

This book is about Elie Wiesel's experences in the concentration camps in Europe during World War II. He and his family are Jewish and are taken away from their homes and loaded into a train car. From there they traveled to a Nazi concentration camp. Eliezer and his family went to Auschwitz, this is where Eliezer and his father get seperated from his mom and his three sisters. They were suposely killed by being burned to death in the furnaces. Eliezer and his father are sent to other Nazi concentration camps. Both men make it through the camps of: Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Sadly Eliezer's father died a slow horable death in front of his son in the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald.

Setting and Tone

The setting of this book changes throughout the story. The story first takes place in a Romania town named Sighet. Then Eliezer and his family are forced into a small ghetto by the Nazi officers. This was a big change for the family because they went from their own comfortable home to a cramped overcrouded area. From there they are load onto train cars that are heading toward Auschwitz. This is where the family is split up forever. This has a devestaing effect on both Eliezer and his father. Then the two men are taken to the concentration camp of Buna. From Buna they go to Gleiwitz. To get to the camp of Gleiwitz they had to go on a death march, this is very termatic for both men. After the death march all of the prisoners are cramed into a small building. This is when Eliezer sees his friend Juliek being crushed alive. At this point Eliezer is falling apart. He just watch his friend die, he has no family except for his dad, and his dad is becoming very sick. Eliezer's world is falling apart all around him. Finnaly Eliezer and his farther are taken to the Nazi camp of Buchenwald. This is where his father dies. The only person his really talked to. Now he is all alone. Eliezer goes through an internal conflict durring this book. He questions himself many times about his faith in his religion. Before he is sent to the camps he often prays and believes heavily in his religion. But as he spends more time inside of the camps he begins to questions himself. He asks why would any god would let his people be treated like this. He stuggles with this thought throughtout the rest of the book. He also questions how could any human being treat others with so much hatred. Eliezer experences this feeling many times by the way the prisoners treat each other and by the way the guards treat the prisoners. media type="youtube" key="kXP2L3MG7gs" height="385" width="480"

Symbols

__**Fire:**__ The fire in this book represents the power of the Nazi army. In Auschwitz the Nazis used furnaces to burn the women and children.

**__Night:__** Night in this book represents the unknow. While Eliezer and his family are in the traincar heading towards Auschwitz Eliezer mentions about the night. The reson is because he had not idea where he would be in the morning. Would he be dead or in a camp without his family, he just had no idea about what in his life would change.

Critique

__**Ryan:**__ I really liked the book. I feel that Eliezer explained all of the experiences he went through with amazing detail. I understood what was going on in the book and I understood the importance of many thing too. The only thing that I did not care for was the ending. It seemed too short, I feel that there needed to be some more after he was found by alied trrops. But other than that I give this book five out of five stars.

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