Night by Elie Wiesel (SPOILERS)
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Night by Elie Wiesel (SPOILERS)
The book is definitely a page turner, but the ending was puzzling to me. It felt like the book just fizzled out at the end. The last line is fitting, but I almost wish he didn't include the part about getting sick after the prisoners were freed. It ended the story on a weird note. I get that he wanted to end with the image of a corpse in the mirror as as metaphor, but I think it would have been more satisfying to end with the image of the freed prisoners throwing themselves on the bread. Does anyone else feel the book went too far?
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I guess I can see that it would have been more satisfying for the reader if the book had ended on a more upbeat note. However, I don't think his intention in writing the book was to satisfy the reader, but rather to stir us with the horror of what had happened. An upbeat ending would, in my opinion, have been disrespectful to what he and the others had suffered.
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I also read the book some time ago, so I don't have a photographic memory of it. But I absolutely agree with the above comment: it wasn't Wiesel's intent to "satisfy" the reader. That might have been a consideration had he been writing fiction, but he was writing cold and brutal facts: what he saw and what he lived through. For him to sugarcoat it in any way would indeed have been disrespectful of what they had all endured.jlauroesch wrote:I read the book a couple of years ago when my daughter was in 8th grade and it was one of the books that she chose to read for a unit in language arts. It's a compelling read due to his narrative flow, though definitely horrifying as well.
I guess I can see that it would have been more satisfying for the reader if the book had ended on a more upbeat note. However, I don't think his intention in writing the book was to satisfy the reader, but rather to stir us with the horror of what had happened. An upbeat ending would, in my opinion, have been disrespectful to what he and the others had suffered.
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