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Reader reviewed by Ivanna

He was not a teenager or kid anymore, he became an animal, that was hungry and angry all the time. He became someone that has forgotten about his past life. He has forgotten that he was a happy kid too; that he had everything and everyone around him. He has become no one or the same as all other Jews. With his eyes he saw too much that he would never forget it; with his arms and legs he has worked and ran for too long that the pain will not go away and with his memories he cannot go to the future without past. Every time it became harder to survive and with selections there were no more hope in life and in future. It became so hard that people would do everything just to live one day longer, they would go through everything for few hours to live. It was hard to live and it was even harder to give up because people believed that it was almost the end. All of them became afraid of dead because they knew that they been through so much and they believed that they could take it longer. Jews became so afraid of the dead that they would do everything to survive. That's what they became in concentration camps.

Elie would do everything even die if he could be with his father. His father became his hope and faith in life. All those struggles and live for is just for his
father. But when his father becomes sick, he loses
everything; he loses his hope, faith and life. It
became his worse time in life, he loses his father and
so his friend. All that he was hoping for is going
away. All that he has been through is for nothing. How
to live longer? Elie's father has died and the rest of
the time that Elie spends in concentration camp became
nothing to him. He didn't care or suffer for his life
anymore, he did not care if he would be beaten or not.
His life became an empty space. Everything that he had
he has lost, including his family.

The last sentences
of Elie's book were the most paintful for me. It was
probably so paintful and hard for him when he saw
another person in the mirror. It is not that he has
changed inside, that he has lost everything, it is
also the person that he does not know. He does nt know
and recodnize himself; not to see yourself in the
mirror for so long. It is not just a mirror, it is a
person and the body you have to know but he could not
know and recodnize himself.
Through whole book I was with Elie, but now I think
that Elie has the hardest time. Still after so many
years Concentration Camps follow him, he cannot hide
from them. It is hard through what he been, but his
memories brinning even harder times. And the book
"Night" is not just a regular book, it is a book with
Elie's difficult and hard memories. It does brings all
the memories of a scary nightmare. I cannot understand
how can the person that been through so much could
share his anger, his loosing faith and hope with us?
How could he forget and forgive us for what we've done
to him and his family? We've changed him for a
completely different person. It is difficult for
someone to live with those memories. And I cannot say
how glad I am that I've read that book. It is not only
tears that came through that book it is also something
deep inside that makes me feel the way Elie felt.
Thank you, Mr. Elie Wiesel for writting such an
incredible book and sharing your memories, suffer and
loss with us.