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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Night SPOILER
So I'm just going to go ahead and spoil the whole book for you. I finished the book in about 45 minutes and really short, but very densely packed with hopelessness. It starts off with the story of this guy who he used to learn with when he was a little boy. That man comes back to town one day with a horrible story that the Nazis shot people into a mass grave. From the first page onward the book details the brutal life during the Holocaust. On his first night in camp, they are told to follow a guard the guard leads them straight to the ovens, they all begin to think their lives have come to an end, when right before the door into the ovens, the guard turns and they are spared for another day. The rest of the book talks about more deaths and murders, his father becomes very weak and dies. His mother and other siblings are killed in the very beginning of the book in the very first selection. At the very end of the book, the Red Army is closing in on the camp so they are taken on a death march through the snow. Few survive, however he makes it out alive and is eventually liberated. It's a very hard book and every page if full of sadness and death. It's not a light read, it's very intense and there is no happiness at all.
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