The book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is a non-fiction based on Elie's experience of the Holocaust as a young boy. Evidently the protagonist of this book is Elie, and he explains in detail everything that happens as a "normal" child, until, years later, he escapes from the concentration camp. His life before the Holocaust was very different from his life during the Holocaust. This experience led him to grow rapidly and have a different perspective on life and society. Everything he witnessed forced him to mature rapidly at a young age and open his eyes to all the cruelty around him. Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish man in 1928, living a "normal" life, until the Nazi Holocaust changed his life for the worse. Elie grew up in a remote area of ​​Transylvania called Sighet. His life would be described as ordinary. “His father, Shlomo, was a shoemaker who was always helping people, and his mother Sarah, was a descendant of Hasidic rabbis and scholars.” (Wiesel's Night Remembers the Holocaust, 1956) His life continues normally until Sighet is invaded by Nazi Germany. “The Nazis and their allies sought to finish the job of murdering every Jew in Europe” (Wiesel's Night Remembers the Holocaust, 1956). Elie, his parents and three sisters were placed in a cattle car filled with other Jews and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. When they arrived, Elie immediately had to face the beginning of his reality seeing his mother and younger sister taken to the gas chambers, "his mother and younger sister were immediately murdered in a gas chamber" (Entering the Night of the Holocaust. .)Elie must deal with the loss of his mother and sister. He also has to deal with his father's unhealthy physical condition. Elie got... halfway through the paper... asked him to write this book, which is now recognized throughout the world. Elie is able to overcome hatred, racism, genocide and prejudice. These problems helped him grow and learn more about the real and cruel world. She also helped him get through his education so he could write the book "Night" based on what he went through. It can be ironic how a person's life can change dramatically in a matter of just a few years. Works Cited Totten, Samuel. “Entering the “Night” of the Holocaust: Studying the “Night” of Elie Wiesel, Bloom's Literature, Facts on File, Inc. 2001 Web. March 12, 2014Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print. "Wiesel's night remembers the Holocaust, 1956" Discovering world history. Detroit Online: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Junior. Storm. Aquino Classical High School. March 10. 2014