Monday, January 19, 2009

NIGHT

The first chapter in the novel, Night, was different from any book that I have ever read before. Usually the first twenty pages in a book are hard to understand and give you barely any information of things, but briefly lay out a couple characters. This book started out very deep. I've never been connected so soon to a book then I have this one. It's beginning of how a young boy and his family are forced by the Nazis to move out of their homes is so powerful. The author takes no time at all to jump into the reality of things. I wish more authors were like Elie Wiesel . Instead of just sugar coating things and trying to make the story any more dramatic than it was, he just flat out lays the facts and you are engaged to his life and story. It's so sad already and I've only read the first twenty pages!

1 comment:

Lorita said...

yeah, I felt the same way towards Night as well. You really get connected with the narrator and get used to his style of writing. I, too, enjoyed reading Night.