A bleak, endless night: that is Elie Wiesel's outlook on life after he survived the torment of the Holocaust. Night, his autobiography, walks you step by agonizing step through his personal experience of the Holocaust. Throughout the story there are contrasting scenes of light and dark. Three of these scenes are: when the Jews felt joy when they received the signal to be departed, the image of the smoke rising into a silent blue sky, …showed first 75 words of 837 total…

…showed last 75 words of 837 total…within his soul? Those victims are not prisoners, but heroes. The Nazis are not honorable soldiers but primitive, closed-minded beasts. And we are not distant ancestors, but brothers and sisters of those who survived, called to remember their suffering. We must learn from the mistakes of the past and grow to love each other: to love each other like God intended. Although people are essentially good, this essence is quickly lost, and not quickly regained.