Reading In Elie Wiesel's Night

Reading allows for one to drift away from reality and opens a new door of an alternate fictional world. Once the reader has developed an emotional connection to the book and finds it intriguing, it is impractical to close the book. Reading allows a person to think creatively and take a break from life's stresses and worries. Whether one is reading for pleasure or for academic reasons, if enjoyable, the difference should be indistinguishable. Gratifying books teach lessons and try to get the reader to think deeply about a topic. Readers look for specific qualities in books such reader's interest, an opportunity for vocabulary, and the appropriate reading level for their age. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Night by Elie Wiesel and Red Queen
Throughout the memoir of Elie Wiesel, he explains his experiences living and fighting to survive in multiple concentration camps through vivid imagery. Elie deliberately calls himself by the name Eliezer as metaphor of the shell of his former self in the concentration camps. Once Eliezer and his family were placed in the camps, quickly the realization of the true horrors of where they were at came true. Desensitization changes Eliezer as a person, he has witnessed babies being thrown into the fire alive, multiple hangings, starvation, disease and much more atrocious events. Even seeing his own family become hurt had not affected him. “What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, before my eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid. I had looked and said nothing.. Had I changed so much, then? Now remorse began to gnaw at me. I thought only:I shall never forgive them for that” (pg. 36) This quote, amongst many others establishes a sense of pathos for the reader by establishing an emotional connection to Eliezer. Even though his father had been badly struck by the Nazi soldiers, he had done nothing to try to help save his own father from the beating.The two themes of desensitization and loss of faith are intertwined because one does not exist without the other. Because he is inure to the horrible daily occurrences, Eliezer begins to believe that this is the life God had intended for the Jewish people
Although following the love triangle between Mare, Cal, and Maven was interesting, the novel was very similar to many other dystopian books such as The Hunger Games and Divergent. In the book just as in many other dystopian books, there is an oppressed group of people being the ones with red blood and there is the minority powerful group being the ones with silver blood. The book did not give me an opportunity to learn new vocabulary words and was at a middle school reading level. Red Queen does not give valuable lessons, but rather repeatedly emphasises “anyone can betray anyone” (pg. 59) throughout the whole story. About halfway through the book, my interest lowered because I already could predict how the ending would play out. To me, predictable books are one of the worst qualities a book can contain. I did not feel a connection with the main characters and did not care as to what was going to happen to them. Usually, in a book I enjoy, I care when a character is killed or badly injured because the emotional connection developed to them. If Red Queen made me challenge my previous thoughts like Night and Romeo and Juliet it would have been a much more