In this piece of literature “Night” was telling how horrible the Nazis were treating Jews during WWII. The Nazis were taking the Jews to concentration camps, and their families were separating. Men were taken to work for the Nazis, and those who were weak would get killed. Children would be burned in the furnaces like they were trash or killed from the gas chambers. They only received little rations of food each day. They had a hard life from the Nazis.
The event in the book “Night” that I would remember the longest was when the Nazis hanged the little boy. They let him slowly suffer until he died, and told everybody to watch him pass away. This event was very sad about how the Nazis treated kids in the concentration camps. The image that would stick with me was children getting burned in the furnaces. It was a horrible death from burning when they still alive. It would be very hurtful and painful from the fire. The most angering and confusing would be when they were separated from their family. They were very sad and did not know what to do. They would do anything to survive because they wanted to go back to see their family. It was the most touching for me because it was very sad to be separated from our family. I learned that family is the most important thing in our life.
By: Xiong Her
