That book titled ‘Night’ (2)

Hello everyone,

Sorry it has taken me this long to put up a sequel.Sometimes my life gets incredibly busy that I can hardly cope with all I have to do. Sounds familiar?

Like I said in my first part of ‘Night’ I find it difficult understanding how inhuman man can be to another just because situations and circumstances change. In the book which is an account of a young man’s (he was 15) experience of the Nazi Concentration camps one gets to read and experience the dirt, sorrow and loss of innocence and humanity.

People like the writer of the book saw their families thrown alive into blazing fires, babies and toddlers included. At some point the inmates of these camps were ready to kill their siblings and parents in order to get their serving of bread or soup to assuage their starving bellies as they were underfed.

At the end of the book I came away with one terrible thought, a thought that I have each time I read books that tell of inhumanity, of extreme wickedness and lack of appreciation of a life. The thought that if rules are taken away, if punishment is no longer there as a deterrent, will people, people of today still act like the inhuman debased people we read about in books like ‘Night’ or will they be different now, more humane, more tolerant, more empathetic?

I am afraid to know what the answer is.

That book titled ‘Night’ (1)

Hello there,

I hope your weekend is going great.

I thought I should share a book I am reading. It is titled ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel. It is a small book of about 120 pages.

Apparently the book was initially written in French but was translated into English by the writer’s wife, Marion Wiesel. It is a very moving account of the author’s experience of the Holocaust. It has a profound effect on the reader and  personally I am unable to shake off the sense of incredulity at the extent of man’s inhumanity to his fellow.

I will write more about the book in my next post. In the mean time how about visiting the nearest library or bookshop and reading the book?

Please stay around.