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"For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard [a] man asking: Where is God now?" The suffering of this child being hanged is comparable to the …

…holocaust that may just list facts or jump around from person to person, Night is written in a first person narration form. The reader not only goes everywhere with Eliezer but also knows every thought that runs through his head. Although, at times, it is a very terrifying book to read, it is also very valuable. This biography leaves the reader with an "unforgettable message that this horror must never be allowed to happen again."