For the past two weeks I have been reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel, with my class. The book is about Elie, who is Jewish, surviving the Holocaust with his father in Auchwitz. The story starts off with Elie living his normal life as a pre-teen when his poor friend comes back from the woods and tells him his story. He was sent in a cattlecar by Hungarian police and sent in the middle of the forest to dg large holes. The Hungarian police would shoot people in the head and make them fall into the graves that they dug. Elie's friend escaped by faking his death when he was wounded. Ellie and his family were later forced to stay in their houses along with the whole neighborhood. All of the Jews were then taken on cattlecars. They couldn't eat or drink anything for days. One of the ladies in the cattlecar went crazy due to the loss of her family and from all of the starvation. She started seeing fires in the distance. She screamed every time she saw a fire. The Jews in the car were angry and hit her until she was quiet. They later stopped at Auschwitz where they saw large fires from large furnaces where bodies were being burned. Ellie was seperated from his mother and sisters. He was able to stay with his father with the help of another prisoner. Elie and his father were forced to march around the concentration camps to different barracks that kept different types of people that the Nazis despised. One barracks held Gypsies. Ellie's father asked the leader of the barracks who was also a gypsie for the directions to the bathroom. The gypsy slapped him on the face. The conditions of the prisoners was awful. It must have been very brave of Ellie to go through such a horrible event. The book is very thrilling and is very descriptive on the things Ellie describes in the novel.
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