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A review by robotnik
Night by Elie Wiesel
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.0
It's so hard to put into this book into words. I remember having to read it in school. My class of 26 was the type of students who would rather be in gym class, rock climbing, than reading a book. Some of them probably rather be stuck in a math test than read a book. There was literally myself and one other girl who read regularly away from class. And, this book made this group of book haters emotional.
It's the memoir of a Holocaust survivor, and so you can't really judge the events or the emotion that went behind it. This book really brings to life the horrors and atrocities that happened during the Holocaust. It's written in such a way that it reminds you that these were real people with real horrors happening to them, and this wasn't hundreds of years ago - so far distant in the past that we tend to forget that these things happened to real people. But, this wasn't far in the past, as far as history is concerned.
I loved this book, and I hope other people read it. It's a reminder about what mankind can do to itself, and why we should try our damnedest to not repeat history.
It's the memoir of a Holocaust survivor, and so you can't really judge the events or the emotion that went behind it. This book really brings to life the horrors and atrocities that happened during the Holocaust. It's written in such a way that it reminds you that these were real people with real horrors happening to them, and this wasn't hundreds of years ago - so far distant in the past that we tend to forget that these things happened to real people. But, this wasn't far in the past, as far as history is concerned.
I loved this book, and I hope other people read it. It's a reminder about what mankind can do to itself, and why we should try our damnedest to not repeat history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism and War