EAndrikopoulos Reader Response

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, we learn about the absolute disgrace of the concentration camps that Jewish citizens have been put in to. The horrific description of these camps has absolutely disgusted me. When Elie writes, "Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns," (Wiesel, 6). It's astonishing that the men who ran the camp or just all the German officers in general could treat people the way they treated the Jews. What if they were the ones being put in to the concentration camp? I understand that if they didn't do what they were told, they would be shot, but why would the person shooting them think this is all ok? It all traces back to Adolf Hitler. No, healthy person has this much hate and this much anger towards a certain group of people. Why didn't they control him when they knew he was sickly so that the Holocaust never happened. What had the world come to that throwing babies around and shooting at them is no big deal? The concentration camps made slaughter houses look good. One person Elie encountered said, "What do you expect? That's war...," (6). If that's war, how manly sickly people are out there? No one in their right mind would ever treat other people this cruelly and this harshly. Elie does a phenomenal job giving insight to what really happened inside the concentration camps. He put all of his emotion in to his writing so that the reader can feel exactly what he feels. When he separates from his sisters and his mother, he make you put yourself into his shoes. You wonder how high your emotions would be running, knowing that could be the very last time you see your family. It's inspiring how even after everything they've gone through, the threats, the crammed bus ride, and the abuse that Elie and his father are still greatly optimistic and still have hope that they will soon see the rest of their family and they are still alive. They are very brave to go on through this journey not knowing what it going to happen to them next. At one point Elie debates throwing himself in to the barbed wire electric fence just so he would have a quick death rather than burning a slow, painful death in the crematoria. I do not blame him for having this thought cross his mind because without a doubt, it would have shown up in others' minds at some point thought this journey. Elie’s use of imagery helps the reader picture in their own mind the horror that he had to go through at this camp. His writing techniques make you feel as if you were standing right there next to him during this horrific event.