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[_ilovelucy_]

"In one possible moment of lucidity it seemed to me that we were d***** souls wandering in the half-world, souls condemned to wander through space till the generations of man came to an end, seeking their redemption, seeking oblivion- without hope of finding it."-p. 34 "Night"

i'm glad i've got hope.

Comments

[punkysdilemma12]

great book.

[cellorosin987]

I LIKE THAT BOOK WITH DEAREST PASSION.

it was so meaningful and sad. just wait until page 61. (yes i remmeber hte pages...PSHTT!)

[enamored]

I miss the freshman year english curriculum sometimes. the chosen, to kill a mockingbird, night beautiful. probably the books that will change your life the most (although, The Great Gatsby is up there too).

the fact that you astericked out that word really makes me feel bad about my incessant use of profanity.

[x_barrelr0ll_x]

Night was such an intriguing and awesome book. Too bad it was only 109 pages, though. I would have wanted to see an extra 70 pages tacked on, or something.

Elie Wiesel is the most moving author on the planet.

[d_mcg]

In saying Night was an intriguing and awesome book you are correct, but in saying that 70 or so more pages would have made it better you are not. It is the brevity in which the horrors of the Holocaust are thrown on you that leaves such an effect on you. It just kinda hits you, how terrible the things that happened are. Then the book is over.... and you're left there thinking how in the world could no one have done anything to stop it for so long. If the book had dragged on any longer you would have left a little more resolved, with less to think about on your own, what Elie wanted was for people to see what happened and for them to register it and make sure it never happens again. If you read and read about the same stuff, you might just get desensitized to all the horrors of the holocaust, and if that happens, the book may not have had as great of an effect on you.

and also, though Elie Wiesel has written some of the most striking and moving stories, I'd just go as far as to say he is ONE of the most moving authors...

[enamored]

A+

[x_barrelr0ll_x]

Everyone must know the horrors of the Holocaust. In fact, there are teenagers out there who know nothing or barely anything about it.

Know what's even worse? In Darfur, Sudan (this may be old news to you), people are being killed as part of some ethnic cleansing thing, just like in the Holocaust.

Girls are starving themselves to look thin and they look similar to Holocaust victims... even though we're rich as pigs, we starve ourselves to look like sticks.

This world is broken now. Ever since we adopted Alexander Hamilton's dream of industry in America and became one of the wealthiest nations, the world has slipped into near chaos.

Elie Wiesel is a very moving story writer. I have read some other moving books such as Go Ask Alice which was actually not written by a girl in the 1970s--it was written by some woman that nobody really knows. The book is about drug use and abuse and it moves me a little less than Night, but still enough to stir emotion

[d_mcg]

we've got so much hope.