Monday, April 4, 2011

The Light in Night by Steven Pappas

Night was a great book in my opinion of a boys experience in the Holocaust. I found many "lights" in Night. One of them is understanding. This might sound absurd, but the Jews finally understood what was really happening. They had surrounded themselves in this cloudy false thinking, that when the lightbulb was turned they were shocked by what they saw. As ugly as this light may be, it is still a light.
A different sort of light I found was of freedom. We always hear of the light at the end of the road, and it signifies a place we want to go. Many people in the book held onto that light like Juliek, and the man that defied Germany at his death. Elie and others finally made it to the end of the tunnel, to freedom!

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