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Night Night is an utter brilliant piece of work. It tells a horrifying, yet truthful account of basically life as a Jew during the Holocaust. Upon finishing Night, this book did something; it touched my heart like no other book has. After reading this paper, I hope it touches you as the book has touched me. Dehumanization. Dehumanization is defined as taking away rights, characteristics, and emotions from people. If you take away these things …

…put this amazing story in a well-constructed novel. Another thing Elie does in this novel is he paints a very clear picture of the story. Often while reading the book, I pictured it. I pictured actually being in Elie’s shoes and seeing what he saw. That was pretty terrifying. There is one overall thing that I think this book and the countless Holocaust books portray, and that is, never let this happen again, ever.