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Night by Elie Wiesel is an amazing book with an extraordinary story, and even more so when one considers that it is not fiction. ... Elie Wiesel paints the picture in a natural order just as one could imagine how flashbacks of a past life would emerge in a memory. What is most striking about the writing of this book is that Elie Wiesel tells these horrifying events of his life taking the same stand as he had when they were happening to him although he didn’t write about them until at least a decade later.
Wiesel tells his understanding of a situation as the way he understood them at the moment of the story without interjecting his current or better-informed opinions. For instance, when his mentor, Moshe the Beadle was telling the Jews of Sighet of what he had witnessed and survived, Elie writes, “I didn’t believe him myself…listening to his stories and trying my hardest to understand his grief. ... However, the outcome did not overwrite Elie’s first thought of the reason for how Madame Schachter was behaving: ”Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake.
Approximate Word count = 834
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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