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Night, by Elie Wiesel
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post Nov 4 2007, 06:28 PM
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Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful book about a jewish child and his family caught up in a concentration camp. It is an autobiography. We are reading it for class, and I thought it would be a great book to talk about. Here is a few links:

The book's site
Wikipedia on Night
Elie Wiesel's Bio

I believe he choose not to talk about the expierence for twelve years, and if you've read the book, you can understand why. I couldn't believe it was all true.

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sorry, it was ten years.
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post Feb 18 2008, 02:55 PM
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^ They're all autobiographical... so the subsequent books aren't really "sequels".

I remembered I cried so much from reading the book. It was really heart wrenching. It was beautifully written and nothing was sugarcoated. Going from Number the Stars and the Diary of Anne Frank to Night was a huge leap but Night was a much better firsthand account.
 

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Flyinryan874   Night   Nov 4 2007, 06:28 PM
karmakiller   I'm surprised there's not already a topic ...   Nov 4 2007, 06:34 PM
Flyinryan874   Damn that was him? I didn't make the connectio...   Nov 4 2007, 07:16 PM
karmakiller   QUOTE(Flyinryan874 @ Nov 4 2007, 06:16 PM...   Nov 5 2007, 06:59 PM
HakunaMatata   Hella cried when I read this book. It's really...   Nov 4 2007, 10:07 PM
nosylilme   I remember reading this freshman year. It was a re...   Nov 5 2007, 06:20 PM
Flyinryan874   Today we had a girl that visted a concentration ca...   Nov 5 2007, 07:46 PM
babierain   Wow, my AP English class just finished reading tha...   Jan 1 2008, 08:46 PM
mlothepimp   I read this book last year, it's really good. ...   Jan 1 2008, 09:05 PM
RealTalk   Night was the first book I cried over while I was ...   Jan 3 2008, 12:32 PM
austinoutloud   The Honors English classes at my school all have t...   Jan 12 2008, 03:30 PM
SilentLaugh   love this book. the sequels arent as good. i have ...   Jan 12 2008, 03:58 PM
ersatz   Sequels?   Jan 12 2008, 11:32 PM
SilentLaugh   QUOTE(ersatz @ Jan 12 2008, 11:32 PM) Seq...   Feb 18 2008, 02:33 PM
JustinSezRAWR   I had to read it twice and it shocked me the first...   Jan 13 2008, 02:48 AM
Narutard4life   night was a bomb book   Feb 18 2008, 02:26 PM
resplendence   ^ They're all autobiographical... so the subse...   Feb 18 2008, 02:55 PM
SilentLaugh   QUOTE(resplendence @ Feb 18 2008, 03:55 P...   Mar 11 2008, 07:16 PM
resplendence   QUOTE(SilentLaugh @ Mar 11 2008, 08:16 PM...   Mar 30 2008, 11:28 PM
freeridefight   Did you know it was on Oprah's book list? I ...   Mar 11 2008, 06:51 PM
paperplane   QUOTE(freeridefight @ Mar 11 2008, 07:51 ...   Mar 11 2008, 11:39 PM
Joss-eh-lime   i read this book. it was super sad, and i was also...   Mar 11 2008, 08:08 PM
killingthebears   oh god i got this book assigned for global like tw...   May 14 2008, 07:18 PM


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