Night
Junior English
Tragic & Terrifying Memoir
* A work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War.
* In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state, and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver.
Elie Wiesel
"There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.”
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”
“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”
“One person of integrity can make a difference.”
