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Review the information of Night by Elie Wiesel with your chapter summaries covering information in the memoir.
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel won the Nobel Prize Mobile Numbers Girls Peace Prize in 1986. I have never won the Nobel Prize Peace Prize. So see the book first then come here for a review!




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Chapter 1: Wiesel spent my youth in Sighet, a little town in Translyvania. He is a strict Orthodox Jew that's 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 invite the Nazis to come. The Jews of Sighet continue in denial that anything bad can happen to them. Days later the town is ordered to evacuate. Eliezer's folks are part of the last group. Their former Gentile servant, Martha, warns them of impending danger and will be offering them an area 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 arrives at Birkenau, they see smoke rising from chimnies and they are inundated with the horrific odor of burning flesh.
Chapter 3: The first selection occurs. Eliezer and his father lie regarding 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're disinfected with gasoline, get a tattoo, and therefore are dressed in prison clothes. Eliezer's father asks to go to the bathroom and is clobbered with a kapo. The prisoners are then escorted to Buna, a work camp four hours away.




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Analysis: Wiesel emphasizes a persons failure to comprehend just how evil humans can be. He and the family are warned several times to flee, yet they and the location find the truth impossible. Wiesel's primary goal in publishing Night would be to prevent another Holocaust from happening. He emphasizes the need to be aware of evil within the world and to believe first hand accounts of computer.
His recounting of the miserable conditions for the cattle cars and the horrific events he witnesses at Birkenau are examples of quality accounts that really must be taken seriously in order to prevent something as horrible from happening again.
Chapter 4: At Buna, Eliezer is summoned through the dentist to have his gold crown removed. He feigns illness. The dentist, he discovers, is hanged. Eliezer's only focus is always to eat and turn into alive. He is savagely beaten with the kapo, Idek and is consoled by way of a French worker, whom he meets years following the war. The prison foreman, Franek, notices Eliezer's gold crown and demands it. He refuses. Franek beats Eliezer's father and that he gives up the crown.
Eliezer catches Idek making love with a Polish girl. Idek whips him mercilessly and warns him that particular word of the items he saw can lead to more severe punishment. During an air raid two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. A prisoner crawls for them and is shot just before eating some. The Nazis erect a gallows at camp and hang up three prisoners, the final one, a boy loved by all, causes even most jaded of prisoners to weep.
Chapter 5: It is late summer 1944 and another selection occurs. This time Eliezer's father is around the wrong side. He gives his spoon and knife to his son. Eliezer rejoices while he returns and discovers there was clearly another selection and his father still lives. Eliezer hurts his foot and it is sent for the infirmary. He hears rumors of Russians approaching. The Nazis evacuate the camp. Eliezer assumes infirmary patients will probably be killed so he leaves. He discovers later how the patients were liberated the following day.
Chapter 6: The prisoners have to run 42 miles a single night within a blizzard. Those struggling to keep up are shot. The refugees stay in a small village where Eliezer and his father keep one another awake to prevent freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a small shack occupied by Eliezer, looking for 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 shipped to the death side. A diversion is created with his fantastic father switches lines.
Chapter 7: The survivors are packed into cattle cars and sent to Germany. The train stops frequently to remove dead bodies. Eliezer recounts how German workers throw bread in the cattle cars to witness the prisoners kill one another. Eliezer is practically killed.
Analysis: Wiesel attributes his survival to luck and coincidence, two ideas that play a prominent role within the novel. Each selection can be a matter of luck and coincidence; being allotted to easier jobs is a matter of luck and coincidence; leaving the infirmary is really a matter of luck and coincidence. Wiesel honestly portrays his feelings toward his father. He is aware that his father gives him strength to continue; he acknowledges that his father from time to time becomes a burden.




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Chapter 8: Upon their arrival at Buchenwald, Eliezer's father is not able to move. Eliezer brings him soup and occasional, from the advice of other prisoners who counsel him to hold it for himself. Eliezer's father, suffering from dysentary, begs for water. An SS guard becomes annoyed and knocks him inside head. Eliezer wakes up the next morning and discovers his father's empty bed. He is more relieved than sad.
Chapter 9: Eliezer is only 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, yet 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 a mirror, which is shocked by his appearance.
Analysis: Eliezer's reflection that they 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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