I read this book when I was at University. Being a student of
Political Science, the Holocaust was an intensely studied subject.
A professor of mine suggested I read this book and for the first
time in my life, it took me two weeks to read a book.
In case you need to understand...I read the entire Stephanie
mayer's twilight series in two weeks...almost three thousand pages.
The little tiny "The Night" novel took me two weeks to read because
it was so heartwrenching, heartbreaking, difficult, fascinating,
heart stopping, breathtaking work of art I had ever read. I
relished every word and when I read that last phrase, when he looks
himself in the mirror and sees a corpse...it changed me. I dreamed
about this book months after I finished it and here...six years
after, I still tremble with the thought of its haunting tale. It is
not my favorite book in the sense that I would never be able to
read it again, but it was the most life altering story I had ever
read.
The story begins with a fairly large jewish family living in the
midst of the beginning of WWII. Elie is a young man wanting to
experience life. He is barely a man. Then the Nazi come and takes
the entire family hostage. Elie must become a man within the camps,
trying to survive for the sake of surviving. How do you survive
when you have nothing to survive for?
I can't believe how people were able to resume their lives after
such horror, but to read about it...you can taste the fear, feel
the agony and your heart aches with their despair.
For anyone who want to read a story they will never forget, to read
a story that will truly open their eyes and experience events that
are too real to be imagined...read this story.