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- Eliezer is very religious and wants to study cabbala, Jewish mysticism, but his father says that he's too young. The narrator doesn't give many details of daily life for the rest of his family or the rest of the townspeople. He focuses on how, as a pre-teen and teenage boy, his own profound faith shapes his activities and his priorities.
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As a boy, Weisel studies the Torah (the Jewish Bible) and the Talmud (rabbinical teachings), while his sisters Hilda, Béa, and Tzipora help his parents run a shop. Eliezer is very religious and wants to study cabbala, Jewish mysticism, but his father says that he's too young.
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Eliezer, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, recounts his family's deportation to Auschwitz in 1944. He describes the Nazi oppression, the Jews' denial of the horror, and his relationship with his father.
Night is approaching, night has fallen, Eliezer and his family lie awake at night. Night functions as both a metaphor and a symbol. It is a metaphor for the Holocaust, which will submerge Eliezer's family and thousands of other Jewish families in the darkness and misery of concentration camps.
In Buchenwald, however, Eliezer’s father dies of dysentery and physical abuse. Eliezer survives, an empty shell of a man until April 11, 1945, the day that the American army liberates the camp. A short summary of Elie Wiesel's Night. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Night.
Night Chapter 1 Summary. Meet Moishe the Beadle. He’s a poor Jew in the town of Sighet (now in modern-day Romania), where our author and narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, lives. Moishe the Beadle is awkward and shy, but 12-year-old Eliezer likes him anyway. Eliezer, who’s also Jewish, is very religious.
Chapter 1 Summary. Eliezer, the narrator, is a 12-year-old boy in 1941, living in the Transylvanian town of Sighet (then recently annexed to Hungary, now part of Romania). He is the only son in an Orthodox Jewish family that strictly adheres to Jewish customs and law. He has two elder sisters, Hilda and Béa, and a younger sister called Tzipora.
