Elie Wiesel's Harrowing Personal Narrative
It’s a harrowing account of one of the worst periods in human history, told from the point of view of a teenager ripped from his life, family, and aspirations. Elie Wiesel's novel , " Night " which is based on his own experiences in the Sighet ghetto and the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchwald, is awfully harrowing. Enough so to change the world. " Night," tells the tragic story of a teenage Jewish boy living in the small village of Sighet in Transylvania. When the novel starts, Wiesel depicts him as studious, dedicated to stying the Torah along with his mentor. Although things are quick to change when that same mentor is captured by the SS and manages to return to the village, reporting the sight of men and women startlingly being executed at gunpoint by Nazi soldiers. The town doesn't believe him at first, but the reality of their situation comes home when the Jewish citizens of Sighet are moved into a ghetto, then onto a cattle car and trans