Night By: Elie Wiesel

So the book I'm reading in my Lit Circle is called Night by Elie Wiesel and the story is about the author's life during the Holocaust. See the events in the story happen very quickly and at the beginning of the story Elie and his family are very religious Jews who live in a community that is full of others like them. Then they start hearing rumors about the concentration camps and how the German military (Nazis) are conquering places in a matter of months but, they never really believe the rumors because, after all, its not happening in their community. Until the day did come when they are being moved out of the ghettoes and taken to an unknown destination. When they got to there distention they realized that they had been tricked and had arrived in a crematorium camp and they were going to get separated. Elie and his father were separated from the women in their family and they were then lead into a concentration camp, they were lucky. During the time that Elie and his father were in the concentration camp they had to do hard labor and survived only on soup, bread and coffee. I'd say the real story began during the winter of 1944. It was the start of the end of the Nazis so things became ruff, there were executions, beatings and less food. The concentration camp they were in got shut down and they had to run for miles to a far away deserted town until the Nazis could find another camp to send the Jews too. During their journey most died because of the snow or because they were shot by Nazi soldiers. By the end of the story Elie has to struggle to take care of his father, who became very ill and even though Elie nows that his father won't make it, he keeps taking care of him until the last day. Fortunately, as the Jews watched, the Russians were able to invade the camp and defeat the Nazi soldiers but even then, when the Jews were free they didn't think of revenge, only of provision.

The genre of this book is historical non-fiction. Elie Wiesel is a real person who went through something that really happened. Night is somewhat of a autobiography because the story is about someone's life written by that same person.