Night By Elie WieselThe book Night was written by Elie Wiesel it is also about a true story he wasjust a child when it all happened. The book starts off as a little boy that is12 years old his name is Eliezer he and is three other siblings Hilda the oldestgirl then Bea and the baby of the family Tzipora all lived with there mother andfather they were a small little Jewish family. Elie’s family owned a littleshop but only Hilda and Bea could help and Elie had to stay in school. Eliewanted to learn the perilous world of mysticism, which is a form of the Jewishreligion that only one can study at the age of thirty. Elie’s father was notup to discuss the matter much cause the answer that Elie received was not theone he wanted to hear.
So Elie found a man named Moshe the Beadle he was a kind,funny and poor normally the people in Sighet would hate poor people that livedon the streets but Moshe was different he was kind and caused no harm. When Elietold Moshe that he wanted to learn about mysticism Moshe looked very surprisedthat a 12 year old would want an old poor man that sits an a synagogue all dayand prays to teach him the mysteries of the mysticism. Moshe started teachingElie everyday but one day the Hungarian police started cramming all the Jews inSighet into little cattle car on a train. Every one that was inside was safe butif you were in the street you were taken.
The very next day when Elie went tothe synagogue to meet Moshe he was not there he had been taken. Elie wept andtold his father what had happened to Moshe but it was like telling on him selffor going behind his father’s back and learning mysticism. In 1942 Mosheescaped death and came back to Sighet and was trying to tell every one what hadhappened to him but nobody listened not one single person of the town of Sighetwould even hear him out. When he came to Elie’s house Elie’s father Chlomotold Moshe he was not welcome there any longer.
The next day Elie went lookingfor Moshe to find out what happened to him. Elie found Moshe weeping in thesynagogue. Moshe told Elie that all the Jews in Sighet were going to die and hehimself almost died he said that the Germans would throw little babies in theair and let the gunners have target practice that they would make the prisonersdig giant holes then take off there clothes and line up on the edge of the hole. They would one by one shoot people and they would fall into the hole there was aman he said that was begging to be killed before his three sons.
The only waythat Moshe stayed alive is that he was shot in the leg and fell in the hole andwas mistaken for dead. He said there where three other people that were not deadyet and a lady that that was trapped under dead bodies including her baby. Thiswas in 1942 now its 1943 and Elie’s mom is looking for a nice young man tomarry her daughter Hilda. It was then quite in the town of Sighet until 1944they heard over the radio that Hitler’s army wasn’t going to be able to comein to the town of Sighet and hurt any more people because the Russian’s frontline was moving in.
Then the town of Sighet believed the radio and didn’tthink that they were in danger of be EXTERMINATED. All of a sudden all of thesetroops start coming in the town and nobody thinks to much of it. Until all theJews where told that they were to give all there items of any value to theHungarian police then they told them that they were not able to leave the houseafter 6:00p. m. Moshe came to Elie’s house and told Elie’s dad that he toldhim what would happen and nobody listened to him.
Then he ran off in to the darkstreet. The Jews were made to yellow stars on there shirts. Then came theGhettos there were two ghettos a big one and a smaller one the lager one was4streets long and 4streets wide but the smaller one that Elie’s family was inwas just made up of little side streets. All the Jews in Sighet were put intothe two ghettos. Elie’s house was in the smaller ghetto and they were allowedto live there but they had to block all the windows that overlooked the street. Elie’s dad was told by the Hungarian police that they were going to be movedbecause the red army was to close to their location.
The next day all the Jewswere moved from the ghettos to a train which would take them to there nextghetto camp nobody new how long it would be or where it was. On the train Eliemeet Madame Schacter who started having visions of fire while on the train. Whenthe train stopped and every one was off they were told that they had to walkfive miles to the ghetto camp. Julick brought a violin who was an older man andthe whole way he was playing songs to keep up every body’s hope. Only a Germansolider shot the old man in the head. When they arrived at the camp they meetFranek he was a solider that told every body that if they had a gold tooth thathe was going to take it out.
That is what he did after that was done they madeall the women and the men in two lines. The men would go on and work but nineout of ten women would be sent of in to the woods where they would go to the gaschamber or shoot and killed. The men either worked or helped the soldiers. Idekanother German solider would beat the men and he beat Elie’s dad the most onlybecause he would be to tired to march the way they were supposed to. The onlyreason he was week is cause they only got 500 calories a day. {Which is equal totwo poptarts and a stick of gum}.
Later on in the book Elie’s dad dies of foodpoison and Elie gets in affection in his shoulder and had to go to the hospitalwhich was the most dangerous place to be in the camp {weird uh} because therewas a doctor named Mengele who liked to pick people and experiment on them and Imean like take out there heart and see how long it takes them to die. Or cutthere arm off and let them bleed to death. So Elie got out of the hospital assoon as he could. The book ends really fast but the red army comes in and savesevery one and Elie is the only one left in the family so he goes back to hishouse to gather up what is left. Only to run into a person he new at the camp ata store and started to talk and remember the story.
