The Night Divided Summary

My book report is for A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen. I chose this book because it describes the life of a twelve year old girl during the Great Berlin Wall. This book is about a young girl named Greta who is separated from her father and brother because of the Berlin Wall. One day Greta gets a message from her father. She thinks he wants her to start digging a tunnel. Greta finds and old abandoned building where she starts digging. Greta and her brother Fritz work long, tireless, never-ending days digging. One day there was someone of the other side of the tunnel, it was Papa. Once the tunnel was completed they set through it, escaping the treacherous East side, to the colorful bright West.

The three main characters of the book are Gerta, her brother Fritz, and Anna which is Gerta’s best friend. Gerta is the main character and she is very determined, brave and loves her family very much and wants them all together again. Fritz is Gerta’s older brother who has her back and is with her for everything. He is a hard working man and will have to go and be a soldier if they do not make it to the other side of the wall in time. Anna is Gerta’s best friend and they always are there for each other. When one day Anna’s older brother Peter tried to escape and Gerta knew that Peter was going to escape but did not tell Anna and their best friend relationship could be

In East Berlin, you are not allowed to be close to the wall or the Grenzers will punish you. Here though, Gerta was getting closer than most of the people in East Berlin have ever gotten. If one of the guards in the watchtowers spotted her then she would be taken to jail and her family(her mom and brother Fritz) would be asked questions and punished for Gerta’s behavior. This shows that Gerta is taking big risks, so she can find a way out of East Berlin. Another big risk that Gerta took was when she went to steal a pulley to help her work faster in the tunnel her brother Fritz and she was working on.

At the beginning of these chapters they thought their luck was changing, but sadly it was not. The Kommandant and the Oberscharfuher were talking about how Roosevelt was dead and how they would win. After this happened they shortly arrived at Lager Tekla a small Hungarian Jewish women’s camp. Magda was separated from the them because she was already a Lager worker. Magda’s barrack was bombed out, but she escaped just in time and joined jutka and mother. They were later herded to Schonau Lager. At this camp they were a little scared of the americans constant bombing. At this new camp there were some captured soldiers who offered bits and pieces of information about what was going on in the war. Jutka, Magda, and mother were forced to go on a march, but

Night begins with the narrator, Elie, talking about Moishe the Beadle, who is described as the “jack-of-all-trades” in a shtibl (Weisel, 21). He then continues by talking about his family. He goes back to talk about his deep conversations with Moishe and their evenings spent together. One day, the foreign Jews of Sighet, where he lives, were expelled. This included Moishe. They were taken away in cattle cars by the Hungarian police. Months past and one day, Elie saw Moishe sitting on a bench near the synagogue. He tells Elie about what happened to him; how he and the other Jews were transported and forced to dig their own graves in the forest. Luckily, Moishe had managed to escape. He had come back to warn the Jews in Sighet of what to come.

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he shares his story of his experience through World War Two. Through his experiences, he experiences both internal and external conflicts. The conflicts he experienced include ideas of dehumanization, loss, and physical changes.

Ready Player One hits some of the same situations as in the holocaust or for the book that we read “Night” like taking people spread out over a good area and combining them into a small dense area. They both also touch on the topic of how when someone is killed or something is blown up now one raises an eyebrow or if they do no one does anything about it.

While reading the books, Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza, and Night by Elie Wiesel, the similarity in person was very prominent. Noticing how closely related these two authors were in their time of struggle and how they conquered their struggles to become survivors. Family, personality, religion, and lifestyle all played separate parts in the story which were told. Though these authors share many similarities, there are still a few ways they differ in the events they were exposed to.

The novel “Night” is a vivid representation of a man’s loss of faith from the beginning to the end of the catastrophic era in which this book takes place. As a young boy Elie’s inquisitive mind directed him to the synagogue where he would study the Kabbalah’s revelations and mysteries. Here is where “Moishe the beadle,” a friend to Elie, would sit with him in the synagogue and they would talk for hours about the intriguing secrets of Jewish mysticism. One important piece of advice that Moishe told Elie was, “There are a thousand and one gates allowing entry into the orchard of the mystical truth.” This simply meant he would need to pursue these answers on his own. However, Elie believed Moishe would help him bind his questions and answers as well, into one. These meetings were interrupted when Moishe was extracted from the Sighet where he experienced malice.

Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Cabbala (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moshe the Beadle, is deported. In a few months, Moshe returns, telling a horrifying tale: the Gestapo (the German secret police force) took charge of his train, led everyone into the woods, and systematically butchered them. Nobody believes Moshe, who is taken for a lunatic.

The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, contains the story of Elie Wiesel himself. In this bo

They are at Birkenau and have to be separated by men and women. It is, however, the last time he would see his mother and sister, Tzipora. Eliezer is now with his father and the inmates are upset, asking why they are here and that they should have hanged themselves before coming because of the fate that awaits them. They also give advice, though, saying that Eliezer should say he is eighteen instead of fifteen and that his dad should be forty instead of fifty. Dr.Mengele then appears, asking for their ages and professions, and Eliezer follows the advice and says he is a student. During this process he sees a truck with children, children that are meant to be thrown in the crematorium. He is shocked and disgusted and would rather run into

The first book that I chose to read this summer was Night by Elie Wiesel. This self-biography is about Wiesel’s devastating experiences and memories of the Holocaust. Originally from Sighet, a little town in Transylvania, Wiesel was thirteen when the events caused by the nazis began to reach his town: destructions of synagogues, being forced to wear the Star of David on all of his clothing, being shunned by the non- Jews in his town, etc. By the time he was fifteen, Wiesel and his family were forced on to trains leading them to their lethal fates, the concentration camps. He was separated from his mother and sister, leaving him with only his father; soon they were sent to Auschwitz. The nazis continuously deprived Wiesel and the rest of the

In “Night” the setting creates an anticipating mood which often makes the reader want to keep reading and see how the story develops. When Wiesel describes the Germans appearance he does so as the Jews are gaining optimism and think that the Germans would not come to their town while the author is still hesitant to believe they won’t come to Sighet making the reader want to know if the people or the author is correct. Whenever Wiesel says “The trees were in bloom . It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, it’s weddings,and it’s births.”(8) Things like this would make the Jews happy and think that nothing could rain on their parade. He continues to say later “The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Soon

Night, first of all, was a very tear-jerking story. From beginning to end Eliezer never really caught a break. Before being herded like sheep, Eliezer had a very strong bond with his father and humanity. However, during his time spent in the concentration camps, Eliezer witnessed countless acts of selfishness, such as the other prisoners stealing the food of his dying father. Sons even beat their fathers for food; for example, on the train to Buchenwald, a son beats his father to death so he can have bread crust. In addition, Eliezer himself even has occasional second thoughts about giving his father food, thinking about his own survival over his father. Moreover, the Jews, treated like animals, begin to act like animals; they silence a woman by beating in her. Even though this woman foreshadows what is to come: pain, suffering, and death, the Jews dismiss what she says, call her crazy, and beat her. It was in this scene where I