"NIGHT" option 5

The journey of Ellie Wiesel is a very courageous and inspiring tale, but the fact that this actually happened makes it astounding. You feel for Ellie more than you would a fictional character. The memoir aspect also brings the realization that the Holocaust actually happened and was a bad as it has been made out to be. It adds a huge amount of truth to the events. You begin to think more about the events, and you get sucked into the story of a young boy and his fight for survival, and his human qualities. The way that Ellie wrote this book makes it very real, and i realized how horrible the Holocaust was.