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Review the information of Night by Elie Wiesel with one of these chapter summaries covering information and facts in the memoir.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel won the Nobel Prize Peace Prize in 1986. I have never won the Nobel Prize Peace Prize. So read the book first then come for a review!




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Chapter 1: Wiesel spent my youth in Sighet, a smaller town in Translyvania. He is really a strict Orthodox Jew who is tutored by Moshe the Beadle. When all foreign Jews are expelled, Moshe is deported. He returns to Sighet with horrific tales. Nobody believes him.
Fascists gain control in Hungary and enable the Nazis to come. The Jews of Sighet continue in denial that anything bad will happen to them. Days later the city is ordered to evacuate. Eliezer's loved ones are part with the last group. Their former Gentile servant, Martha, warns them of impending danger and offers them a place of refuge. They refuse.




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Chapter 2: Eliezer and his townsmen are packed into cattle cars and suffer terribly. One woman, Madame Schacter, continually screams of an fire. She is silenced by her fellow prisoners. As the train finds Birkenau, they see smoke rising from chimnies and are inundated using the horrific smell of burning flesh.
Chapter 3: The first selection occurs. Eliezer with his fantastic father lie about their age and steer clear of the crematorium. As they walk to Auschwitz they pass a pit of burning babies. When they arrive in their barracks they are disinfected with gasoline, obtain a tattoo, and are dressed in prison clothes. Eliezer's father asks to visit the bathroom and is clobbered by the kapo. The prisoners are then escorted to Buna, a work camp four hours away.




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Analysis: Wiesel emphasizes the human failure to grasp just how evil humans may be. He with his fantastic family are warned many times to flee, yet they and town find the truth impossible. Wiesel's primary goal in publishing Night is to prevent another Holocaust from happening. He emphasizes the call to be aware of evil inside the world and also to believe first hand accounts from it.
His recounting with the miserable conditions about the cattle cars and also the horrific events he witnesses at Birkenau are examples of upfront accounts that must definitely be taken seriously in order to prevent something as horrible from happening again.
Chapter 4: At Buna, Eliezer is summoned by the dentist to get his gold crown removed. He feigns illness. The dentist, he discovers, is hanged. Eliezer's only focus is to eat and stay alive. He is savagely beaten from the kapo, Idek which is consoled with a French worker, whom he meets years after the war. The prison foreman, Franek, notices Eliezer's gold crown and demands it. He refuses. Franek beats Eliezer's father and the man gives up the crown.
Eliezer catches Idek having sex with a Polish girl. Idek whips him mercilessly and warns him that certain word of the he saw can lead to more severe punishment. During an air raid two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. A prisoner crawls for many years and is shot just before eating some. The Nazis erect a gallows at camp and three prisoners, the past one, a boy loved by all, causes the most jaded of prisoners to weep.
Chapter 5: It is late summer 1944 and another selection occurs. This time Eliezer's father is about the wrong side. He gives his spoon and knife to his son. Eliezer rejoices as he returns and discovers there was another selection with his fantastic father still lives. Eliezer hurts his foot and is sent on the infirmary. He hears rumors of Russians approaching. The Nazis evacuate the camp ground. Eliezer assumes infirmary patients will likely be killed so he leaves. He discovers later the patients were liberated the very next day.
Chapter 6: The prisoners have to run 42 miles in a night after a blizzard. Those can not keep up are shot. The refugees stop in a small village where Eliezer and the father keep the other awake in order to avoid freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a little shack occupied by Eliezer, seeking his son. Eliezer recalls--after Eliahu's departure--seeing his son desert his father, something he prays for strength not to ever do. Another selection occurs. Eliezer's father is provided for the death side. A diversion is created and his father switches lines.
Chapter 7: The survivors are packed into cattle cars and shipped to Germany. The train stops frequently to take out dead bodies. Eliezer recounts how German workers throw bread in the cattle cars to witness the prisoners kill one another. Eliezer is almost killed.
Analysis: Wiesel attributes his survival to luck and coincidence, two ideas that play a prominent role inside the novel. Each selection is often a matter of luck and coincidence; being allotted to easier jobs is often a matter of luck and coincidence; leaving the infirmary can be a matter of luck and coincidence. Wiesel honestly portrays his feelings toward his father. He recognizes that his father gives him strength to carry on; he acknowledges also that his father occasionally becomes a burden.




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Chapter 8: Upon their arrival at Buchenwald, Eliezer's father is unable to move. Eliezer brings him soup and coffee, against the advice of other prisoners who counsel him to keep it for himself. Eliezer's father, struggling whatsapp numbers usa with dysentary, begs for water. An SS guard becomes annoyed and knocks him inside head. Eliezer wakes up the subsequent morning and discovers his father's empty bed. He is more relieved than sad.
Chapter 9: Eliezer is just concerned with food during his remaining months at Buchenwald. On April 5, the evacuation of Buchenwald is ordered. Nazis murder thousands daily. On April 10, Eliezer's block is ordered to evacuate, but it's cut short by air raid sirens. The next day the camp is liberated. Wiesel nearly dies from food poisoning. He recovers, looks in the mirror, and is also shocked by his appearance.
Analysis: Eliezer's reflection that he resembled a corpse ends the novel using a sense of hopelessness. Despite this hopelessness Wiesel dedicates his life to human rights.
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