Reflection

Night, by Elie Weisel. It is a heartbreaking work of non-fiction that breathes first hand experience into the terror and turmoil of the concentration camps during the holocaust. Elie's survival story is a gruesome one, not sparing us a single detail as to what he had to endure. I haven't necessarily learned anything new from this book, as the horrors of the holocaust were already explained to me, and the knowledge is already there, but the colorful vocabulary and writing style of Wiesel definitely gives new insight as to the facts. The most interesting theme i've seen in this book is his loss of faith, hope, and will. Elie witnesses the cruelty of the SS and loses his faith in God's benevolence. The time he spends in camps robs him of his future. His pain numbs his vitality to near non-existence. That is no longer humanity, it is slavery.