Tuesday, October 21, 2008

'Night' by Elie Wiesel

I read the fourth and fifth chapters of 'Night' today. In the Fourth chapter, the jew and his family arrive at Buna, a camp, and the family sees that the camp looked like it got through a epidemic: very empty and dead. The jew meets the head of the camp, a stocky man with big shoulders, the neck of the bull, thick lips, and curly hair. In the camp, he worked next to a young french woman. After he gets beat up, she consols him. Many years later, in Paris, he sees her at the Metro. In the consentration camp, life is very tough for the jew.

In the fifth chapter, the summer comes to an end on the evening of Rosh Hashanah. The jew wonders how he could praise his god for all that has happened. A few weeks later , for Yom Kippur, the jew is told by his father not to fast, so he does not. He surives a test by SS troopers, by running fast, and avoided being writen down for a bad thing. In the winter, all the people are forced to leave the camp, to march in the snow.

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