When I read this short book, I was in an anxious mood, for I would move off to college the next day. I was very full of my own thoughts, very concerned with how things would turn out for me. This book gave me pause, and turned my mind toward darker topics. Night started out so happily, that I knew it had to take a turn for the worse. As if the cover, portraying a …showed first 75 words of 265 total…

…showed last 75 words of 265 total…didn't try to make me feel his emotions. The reactions were solely up to the reader. To read of how he lost touch with his god is perhaps the hardest hitting aspect. Elie could no longer draw strength from his family, and then he renounced his god. This personal strength and self-reliance deeply affected me. I don't know if we all have this solid inner core to stand on, but I'd like to think so.