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The Night is the true story of what Elie Wiesel experienced during World War II. this book was first written in French in 1955 and then translated into English in 1958. During World War II, Jews were naive and hoped for better times. Even though the situation kept getting worse. At night, Wiesel describes the elements of the war that every survivor knew. it shows us how before the war no one could imagine such horrible events happening. the book sends a message stating that whatever bad was happening around them, the Jews were still hoping for better times. Wiesel shows us that they still believed in humanity, they didn't think such bad events could happen, and how, even though they had multiple chances to escape, they didn't. Night is the true story of a young boy, Eliezer, who experiences World War II as a Jew. his terrible journey begins in Sighet, Romania, where he separates from all the women in his family, leaving him alone with his father. with him he will survive all the concentration camps to which he was sent such as Auschwitz, Buna and Buchenwald, still continuing to fight for what he experienced through the cold, hunger, sadness and illness. at the end of the war only he survives as his father dies of exhaustion only a couple of days before the end of the war. During his journey, Eliezer becomes a man haunted by the death and trauma he has witnessed. Wiesel gives his readers an insight into what war was like by telling stories that only the survivors would know about. events like what happened to Moishe the burglar, when they expelled all the foreigners of Sighet and took them to an unknown place to kill them, very few people know about it because practically no one survived except him. Moiche the janitor told the Jews that he wanted to warn them... middle of paper... I didn't want to believe what would actually happen to them. When Wiesel arrived in Auschwitz, he heard and saw all the horrors of war. However, he had hope in humanity and did not want to believe what was really happening. When he saw the crematorium he said: “I didn't believe that people could be burned in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it” (P35). But humanity let this happen and that's why so many people died. To conclude, in “The Night” Wiesel bears a testimony of hope, truthfulness and objectivity to people who fortunately do not have to experience what was his horrible world. Hopefully, humanity has learned from its mistake and will never allow something like this to happen again. Never again. BibliographyWiesel, Elie and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.