EP-8: Night

Hello. Today I want to talk about Night by Elie Wiesel. It's not an easy book to read and it's not meant to be. It's a true story. It's a memoir of Elie Wiesel during his life as a teenager during the Holocaust. He was just 15 when he and his family were taken to Auschwitz and in this very short powerful book he writes about what happened, what he saw, what he felt, what he lost. The writing is very simple but each line carries so much weight. It's not written to you know shock you or show you how aggressive it was but it's written to tell the truth and sometimes that truth is so painful and you just have to stop reading and sit with it for a moment. There were parts where I felt angry, parts that made my heart sing and cry and parts where I just didn't know what to say but I think that's the power of this book. It gives you words, it gives you silence and makes you listen. What stayed with me most was how Elie writes about losing his faith and his sense of self, how his world changed and changed so much in just a few days, how a child can grow old overnight. Night isn't a book that you enjoy reading but it's a book you would always remember, the one that makes you ask questions about humanity, about cruelty and about what it means to survive. If you do read this, please take your time. It's very heavy but important. That's all for today. Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the next one. Take care.