Book Report Essay on Night by Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel’s well-known book “La nuit” is based on personal sad experience. The book is
autobiographic and written in French. Like most of his further books this one is intended for a
wide range of readers. It reminds the reading public about all horrors of Nazi catastrophe. His
honest narrative became one of the most famous books of this kind, as it is based on real facts,
not just a research paper. Elie Wiesel himself was a victim of Auschwitz, and spent certain
period in prisoner-of-war camp at the very end of the war. In his autobiographic work Wiesel
mentions that in 1945 his foot was operated and he was ordered to have a rest for 2 weeks or so.
Russians were supposed to release the prisoners soon and hospital patients had to choose whether
to stay in the camp, be evacuated or released by Russians. Wiesel has chosen evacuation. Later
he mentioned that his book had a special aim. He admitted that he was not only a writer, but a
teacher. In this way he wanted students to understand human values and rights. He wanted
people to feel the pain of his own experience and to prevent suffering of other people in future.
Present youth should be given chance to protect the rights of unfairly accused or innocent people.
However “Night” may seem to be a hard book, as it reveals a lot of painful events from Wiesel’s
life.