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Review this article of Night by Elie Wiesel with your 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 see the book first then come for a review!




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Chapter 1: Wiesel grew up in Sighet, a smaller town in Translyvania. He is often 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 allow the Nazis to come. The Jews of Sighet remain in denial that anything bad can happen to them. Days later the location is ordered to evacuate. Eliezer's loved ones are part of 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 awesome 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 gets to Birkenau, they see smoke rising from chimnies and therefore are inundated using the horrific smell of burning flesh.
Chapter 3: The first selection occurs. Eliezer with his fantastic father lie regarding age and avoid 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 are dressed in prison clothes. Eliezer's father asks to visit the bathroom and is also 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 know just how evil humans may be. He and the family are warned many times to flee, yet they and town find the truth impossible. Wiesel's primary goal in publishing Night would be to prevent another Holocaust from happening. He emphasizes the requirement to be aware of evil in the world and also to believe upfront accounts of it.
His recounting of the miserable conditions about the cattle cars as well as the horrific events he witnesses at Birkenau are examples of top notch 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 own his gold crown removed. He feigns illness. The dentist, he discovers, is hanged. Eliezer's only focus is to eat and grow alive. He is savagely beaten from the kapo, Idek and is consoled by way of a French worker, whom he meets years following your war. The prison foreman, Franek, notices Eliezer's gold crown and demands it. He refuses. Franek beats Eliezer's father and he gives up the crown.
Eliezer catches Idek having sex with a Polish girl. Idek whips him mercilessly and warns him that one word products he saw can lead to more severe punishment. During an air raid two cauldrons of soup are still unattended. A prisoner crawls to them and is shot prior to eating some. The Nazis erect a gallows at camp and place three prisoners, the final 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 because he returns and discovers there is another selection and his awesome father still lives. Eliezer hurts his foot and is also 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 that this patients were liberated the very next day.
Chapter 6: The prisoners have to run 42 miles in a single night within a blizzard. Those unable to keep up are shot. The refugees remain in a small village where Eliezer and the father keep the other person awake to avoid freezing to death. Rabbi Eliahu enters a little shack occupied by Eliezer, searching for his son. Eliezer recalls--after Eliahu's departure--seeing his son desert his father, something he prays for strength not to do. Another selection occurs. Eliezer's father is sent to 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 to the cattle cars to witness the prisoners kill the other person. Eliezer is nearly 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 used on 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 is aware that his father gives him strength to continue; he acknowledges 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 low, from the advice of other prisoners who Mobile Numbers Girls counsel him to hold it for himself. Eliezer's father, struggling with dysentary, begs for water. An SS guard becomes annoyed and knocks him within the head. Eliezer wakes up another morning and discovers his father's empty bed. He is more relieved than sad.
Chapter 9: Eliezer is 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 is 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 he resembled a corpse ends the novel which has a sense of hopelessness. Despite this hopelessness Wiesel dedicates his life to human rights.
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