Book Club Essay: Night

"IF IN MY LIFETIME I WAS to write only one book, this would be the one", says author  Elie Wiesel of "Night".The book takes place during the Holocaust. The author uses the language from the book to express how he felt and how it connected with the author during that time.


Elie Wiesel shows and describes his feeling and what he experienced in the book. For example, he explains the one night that changed his whole life, "Never shall I forget that Night, the first night in camp, that tired my life into one long night seven times sealed."This line shows a lot of meaning because it describes how Wiesel just started a new life on that night. He new exactly how that night would end. On that same night he lost his mother and sister because they were to weak to go on, and after that night he gave up on his dad and lost him to. He turned in to someone he didn't want to become. Elie was ready to give up everything , to lost everything, and never come back. One power line that explains this is, "Deep down, I was saying good-bye to my father, to the whole universe..." The author is trying to explain that he never knew if he could keep fighting, he was questing himself, and Elie had to think what would be next in his life. What would he have to lost.



In "Night" Elie Wiesel was even excited to still be alive and to kept going. For example, in the book there is example of him thanking God for his life which is what he expressed,"Freed from the barbers' clutches, we began to wander about the crowd, finding friends, acquaintances. Every encounter filled us with joy-yes joy: Thank God! You are still alive!" Elie is shocked and overwhelmed that he is still living. He thought for sure he was going to die on those same haunting nights. Another example is that he felt convinced himself that he will die and give up because there was nothing to live for, "I began to think to myself again. My foot was aching, I shivered with every step. Just a few more meters and it will be over.



In conclusion, Elie Wiesel uses different ways to express how he was feeling in the moments it happened. He used a lot of powerful lounge in his book to make you feel as if you were in the book. In the book Elie is either relieved to still be alive or ready to give up at any time. He changes a lot throughout the book. In a way he regrets how he changed.