Night, Pages 54-109

I was really shocked by the fact that Idek would so callously bring about suffering, just to be with a girl. It seems then that the Nazis really succeeded in making the Jews less than humans, unimportant and easy to hurt, because they didn't believe they suffered.

The hangings were very shocking, especially because it carries the important message of apathy. Wiesel feels nothing in the first prisoners' deaths, as he knew him not, but he did know the second and it hurt. Today we are in great danger of this, as the worlds' population is so big, we can be indifferent to problems if they don't directly affect us.

The man who kills himself during the raid, really affected me because of how much the camps destroyed his mind. When he sees cauldrons of soup, a dream come true, a dream in reach, the fact that he reached his goal iis so overwhelming that he chooses to die.

Another thing that stuck in my head is when on page 77 the hungarian sick man says he believes more in Hitler than anyone, because he kept his promises to the Jews, the promises to kill them.

The ending, though "happy" also rung with the author's style of deep but short phrases, taht really carry feeling. The last line is exemplary of this, and really carries the book's message. Not to forget, to not allow this again, this torture, for it yields death and pain and survivors that are less than human.