The Night is a dramatic, non-fiction book that chronicles the horrors of Nazi death camps across Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 years old when Nazi Germany passed through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This story is set between the years 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in the city of Elie. The Nazis begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Eventually the Jews are deported. The Jews are packed into the wagons where they are sent to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book, Elie and his father are sent to two different concentration camps. Their last concentration camp was Buchenwald. His father dies before Allied troops liberated Budapest in 1945. Elie is left with memories of death and violence. Elie Wiesel had many challenges that he faced every day that he was in the camps. The main challenge was obviously to survive the death camps through hard work. Jews able to work had basically two choices. They either worked hard or were sent to the crematorium. Wiesel struggled to survive starvation and abuse. A more important challenge was to stay mentally stable and stay alive internally. The fascist knew how to break down a person not only physically, but mentally. There in the camp he witnessed the death of his family, the death of his innocence. There he began to not believe in God. “Where is God? Where is it located? someone behind me asked.” (Wiesel, 61 years old) Many Jews began to lose hope. What they saw was terrible. “Them… half the paper… n Jimmy Carter's Holocaust. Wiesel later won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Elie Wielsel Foundation for Humanity. Everyone agrees that the Holocaust was horrible and that this should never happen again. This book gave a realization of the true horrors of war. The world is truly not a peaceful place. Something absolutely disgusting will always happen. This book is very detailed about the death camps. The book becomes as personal as “The Diary of Anne Frank”. If a reader really wants to know what it's like to be in the shoes of a Jew at the time of the Holocaust. They should read this book because it almost makes you feel Wiesel's loneliness and depression. Elie Wiesel is an amazing person. Works Cited Wiesel, Elie and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.