Night by Elie Wiesel

By MarcusWu

  • Devout

    p.4 "Why did I pray? Strange Question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? I don't know"

  • Nightmare

    p.31 "Could this be a nightmare? An unimaginable nightmare?"

  • Shadows

    p. 14 "The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction."

  • Fright

    p.15 "My throat was dry and the words were choking me, paralyzing my lips. There was nothing else to say."

  • Tired

    p.17 "We had spent the day without food. But we were not really hungry. We were exhauseted."

  • Cope

    p.21 "As far as I'm concerned, this whole business of deportation is nothing but a big farce. Don't laugh. They just want to steal our valuables and jewelry."

  • The Unknown Future

    p.23 "There was still some food left. But we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worse yet."

  • Foreshadow

    p.26 "Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere..."

  • Goodbye

    p.29 "I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever."

  • Hope

    p.35 "Freed from the barbers' clutches, we began to wander about the crowd, finding friends, acquaintances. Every encounter filled us with joy- yes, joy: Thank God! You are still alive!"

  • Human Words

    p.41 "Comrades, you are now in the concentration camp Auschwitz... Good night."

  • Good Leader

    p.51 "It was good to have a Jew as your leader. His name was Alphonse. A young man... of liberty."

  • Team

    p.71 "Let's stay together. It will make us strong."

  • Conclusion

    p.76 "It's over. God is no longer with us."

  • Near-Death

    p. 86 "Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue. I felt like I could touch it."

  • Strength

    p.87 "Chilled to the bone, our throats parched, famished, out of breath, we pressed on."

  • Corpse

    p.99 "No! I yelled. He's not dead! Not yet."

  • Survival of the Fittest

    p.110 "Listen to me, kid... rations..."

  • Hungarian-Hatred

    p.19 "That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death."

  • Denial

    p.10 "The Germans were already in our town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict was already out-and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling."

  • Doubt

    p.19 "I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was empty."

  • Soup

    p.59 "He reached the first cauldron... was already dead."

  • There is No God

    p.69 "I no longer accepted God's silence. As I swallowed my ration of soup, I turned that act into a symbol of rebellion, of protest against Him."