[.ca] The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, the Accident (ISBN 0374521409)

Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel:
Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel is a story about a city of Jewish people who are being killed by a guy named Hitler. The main characters are Hitler, The Weisel, and a city of Jewish people. Hitler is a leader who tries to kill all the Jewish people. The Weisel is a guy who tries to lead all the Jewish people to freedom, and the "Jews" are the people living in the city being killed. My favorite character in the story is The Weisel because he tries to save all the "Jews." I can relate to the "Jews" because I am Jewish. I have never done or felt any of the things in the story. I liked the book because it told me all about what happened to "Jews." My favorite part of the book was when the families got separated from each other. I would not want to change anything in the book. I recommend this book to older people because of all the gore, but I also would recommend this book to Jewish people who want to learn about their history.

An Outstanding Trilogy:
This is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its' parts. Although all three books are very good to excellent, the way they fit together creates an excellent story from beginning to end. We start with "Night" which creates the understanding of the Holocaust through the perceptive eyes and ears of the youthful story teller. We then move to the book "Dawn" in which we find the main character as a young man who is involved in a moral dilemna. How he resolves the dilemna makes him realize that there is evil in all of us. His attempt to rationalize his actions are not sufficient to redeem himself in his own mind. We finish up with "The Accident" where we find the main character as a middle-aged man whose anger at the world makes him incapable of love. Certainly all that has preceded in his life helps us to understand his feelings but his anger is uncompromising and a dead end in and of itself. The problem resolves itself in a solution that brings an impressive closure to essentially all three books. As a matter of clarification, each novel is a seperate story in itself. There is no "common Character" to all the novels. However, we get a sense that this all happens to one person. This is how well these stories fit together. Essentially, these works would appear to be autobiographical which adds to their meaning. Although Wiesel writes extensively about the Holocaust, there is certainly a special common thread to these stories. Read all three and make sure you read them in their proper order. Despite their brevity, it is as good an overall explantion, evaluation and summation of the Holocaust as you will find.

Insightful work of literature (dawn):
Dawn is the second of a three book series that tells the autobiographical journey of Elie Weisel's life. Weisel is the only survivor of a family that experienced the horrors of the Holocaust, after which, he travels to Palestine to fight for the independence of Israel as a separate state after his recruitment by a terrorist, Gad. Weisel is faced with the fearful task of executing a British soldier, John Dawson, for the sake of the Movement. The British have taken Ben the Moche hostage and are to kill him at dawn, the motive behind Dawson's execution. The book takes place in one evening, several hours. The thoughts and emotions behind having been ordered to end a man's life are the focus of the book, and its depth and intensity will take you to the last page in time sooner than what the plot covers. Weisel sees the sun begin to rise, and walks down to the prisoners condemnation. The time spent between Dawson and Weisel is unimaginable, and the ambiance so dark and saturated that it is nearly destructive to quit reading before the end. Dawn is an extremely good book; it was very intense and mature. Not everyone would be able to handle some of the events in this book or interpret a phrase or character in the story. The book is a very fast read and you almost experience the torture along with him, your heart aches at the end along with his. It is an emotional book, not for those weak of heart or mind, but over all is was awesome. I would recommend it to any one who has read Night, if not, read that one first.

How I the rate The Accident:
The Accident is a book that really makes you think about your life and how well you have lived it. When he gets put in the hosipital by this accident, he starts to think how well he lived his life. I liked how it went back and forth between when he was in the hospital and back to things that happened before the accident. This book has a really good moral, well this is the moral i got out of it. You should put the bad things of the past out of your mind and only keep the good, and live life to the fullest because you never know when it is going to end. there are little saying and conversations in the book that i like very much. there is a part in the book where the guys friend paints a portrait of him while he is in the hospital and the day he gets out he doesnt end up takeing the portrait home, insted he friend that painted it does something with. but over all this is a good book, well if you like books that make you think about yourself.

Brilliantly Depressing!!:
The Accident by Elie Weisel begins with an accident. A man gets hit by a cab and there it all begins. The man Eliezer is hit and his girlfriend Kathleen rushes him to a hospital..where he fights and fights as he wants to die and the doctor saves me... Why would a man want to die? The past never leaves us does it. This story is about the Holocaust and its survivors or rather one of its survivors and life as he sees it today - before the accident and after. While faced with his life or death decision he recalls his time in the German deathcamp at Auschwitz. He recalls the tragedy of of a young girl led in prostitution by the Nazi's, his passionate affair with a woman he will never love, and the horrific events that befell he and his family. The Accident is a part of a trilogy called "The Night Trilogy" and after reading this one book I am just waiting to lay my hands on the other two. Excellante!! A true genius...