Book:Night
Time Read: around 30 minutes
Pages read: 1-23
I love this book. I know I kinda say that about every book I read but this one I really love. I know the story kind of, because it's about the Holocaust but the writing is just... superb. Elie Weisil was born to write. He seems so smart. His writing is more like art than writing. He mentions losing his faith in God when he suffers through the hellish nightmare of the Holocaust, which is extremely sad to me, because I am ultimately a religious person. Anyways about him losing his faith in God, he thinks, why me? Why was it him? It was him because he could survive through it and create beautiful pieces of artwork that will never let us forget what happened to the Jews. This writing just moves me and takes me to dark places in my mind that I never want to go to. It makes me think. Oh dear God, how would I survive if it was me? At one point he says "Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live" How awful is that? I cried the first time I read that. These people were deprived of the desire to live!?
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