a powerful trip across the mind of a holocost surviver wandering the haunted and enchanted streets of the old city in search of a lost friend. rich with emotion and stunning prose, this narration tells the story of the beggars and madmen who gather at dusk in the shadow of history, allowing the narrator to question his very memories. this is a text which lies on your table demanding to be read again and again, revealing bits of its mystery.

The journalist Eliezer, a WWII Nazi concentration camp survivor, steps in front of a cab while crossing the street and the reader is left to speculate whether the occurence was an accident, or attempted suicide. Many who read the novel may comment on the depressing outlook of this survivor from one of the worst atrocities of western civilization. As he describes flashbacks of his experience throughout the nomalcy of his everyday life before the accident, and afterwards while hospitalized, the reader is confronted with the ir-reality that he endures. The weighty psychological effects of the holocost described in the first book of the trilogy "Dawn," where he directly tells the story of being taken into the concentration camps at a young age, follows him ominously. But it would be a great disappointment if this is all the reader examines in the novel, because it is also a story of companionship and romance. The author, while cynical, is also humorous and honest in his view of the world, of God, or the Jewish faith, and the relationship that he gains with his doctor. It is also a touching story about a love relationship. His relationship with Kathleen, dedicated to him - before and after the accident - is a genuine, caring, and witty relationship between two people that endure together through the worst. Anyone who reads it could only hope for something as genuine. The depth of thought and horrorific imagery of a mind that has experienced such atrocities in his youth is evidently what catches the readers attention, and may make for a depressing read, but there is more that this novel has to offer: casual humor, introspection, and insight. An honest story to be appreciated at many levels.

It is not often that a book this small can have such an impact on me... this book is absolutely wonderful for anyone who's ever experienced grief or been tired of life... the whole trilogy was amazingly powerful, but this book I can relate to most of all.

Having read "Night," I found "The Accident" meaningful in the sense that it presents hope in spite of one's history. In the face of cynicism, the character in the book struggled between life and death, love and indifference. I definitely do not regret taking up this book in my Philosophy class.

I just finished Night earlier today and all I can say is, wow! The book is written by a Jewish prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and delivers a chilling perspective on the Nazi death camps. Although relatively short (about 100 pages), Night manages to deliver in the visuals and makes you feel like you are also at Auschwitz. The book tells of a Jewish father and son's struggle in the Nazi camps after being seperated from the mom and daughters. Night created a sense of sadness for me during this book but this can be expected from such a horrible event. It is truly a wonderful book and a very quick read (I finished within 2 days) It tells of the struggle of the Jews to stay alive under such hopeless conditions, the need of teamwork and individual courage to get through the difficult times, and always to help your family out. I truly enjoyed Night and its chilling first hand story it delivered.

Night is a comprehensive view of the holocaust, it tells in terrifying details the horrors that occurred. Elie Weisel, the author, is also the subject of the selective autobiography. It all begins in a Jewish ghetto, during the beginning of the holocaust. Elie and his family are taken to a concentration camp despite warnings by Mosh the Beadle, a mystic that was taken, and escaped and returned to warn his family and friends. At the first camp Elie and his father are sent to work. Elie and his father are sent to many different camps always worrying if they would be split up or not. Along the way they witness many horrors such as a child being hung before thousands of people and not being heavy enough to die immediately, a man giving up his life for an extra ration of soup, a child leaving his father because his father is weak, and even more. Every horror of the holocaust is told in this sad autobiography. Night is easily one of the best books I have ever read. It was very sad and some of the details used made me sick. The reason I enjoyed it so much is because it was a comprehensive view of the holocaust, not a "Disney version" of it. It allows people to see what really happened, feel their pain, and their hopes. This book is a must read for teenagers and older, but I would not recommend it for children because of the gruesome detail used in describing the German atrocities.

"Night", by Ellie Wiesel, explains his real life in the Concentration Camps during World War II. His family and friends who were originally from Hungary were Jewish and were forced into starving, suffering, and mistreatment by the German leader, Adolph Hitler. The Nazi death camp's horror turns this young boy into the agonized witness to his family's murder, and the destroys his faith in God. This book awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute worst and carries with it the unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. The autobiographical nature of this book helps the readers identify with all the suffering and mistreatment that many innocent people had to witness and go through. Ellie Wiesel makes the scenes so real that any reader can feel like they were living in the horrible and terrifying events. The scenes are so vivid that the words can picture the Jews during the mistreatment of the Holocaust. Wiesel has described a painful journey through the darkness, through the false dawns and false days, until there are hints that tiny shafts of light can pierce the seemingly unending nights.

This book keeps a fairly slow reading pace, but perhaps it is to allow the reader to soak in everything the author is trying to say. Dawn is an amazing look into the mind of a holocaust surviver, and the difficult questions that many were plauged with. Is it morally okay for the once tormented victim to become a killer in the name of justice? Where does God play a role in the life of a surviver? Eli Weisel empties his soul into the novel and makes the reader truely think. This book is well worth the 2 hours it takes to read it.

This book was recommended to me as a sequel to Night. If you're looking for a traditional sequel in Dawn, you'll probably be disappointed. Dawn is a sequel to Night in that it reveals another chapter in the life of the Jewish community that survived the Holocaust. Weisel raises serious questions of right and wrong by placing a Holocaust survivor "on the other side of the gun." If you like struggling with difficult moral/ethical issues, this book would be a great choice. If you like the different aspects of the Jewish experience of the Holocaust, you'll also want to read The Accident, the third book in the Night Trilogy.

The book it's self as a work of fiction is not the best. Mainly it is just Mr. Weisel's thoughts on how his life could have turned out otherwise. But this is not the book's purpose, only it's becoming. The book looks into the human mind, specifically that of a soldier, and sees how this soldier can be brought to do what they do. It also raises an idea that we are only an acumulation of what people and events have ocurred in our past. Therefore the book has a psycological presence. And as books are intended to do it stimulates the mind and prevokes thought. It also can be read in a couple of hours. It is like economy psycology, more bang for your buck.