The book <em>Night</em> starts with Wiesel in Sighet in 1941. The narrator is Eliezer Wiesel, an Orthodox Jewish teenager. He tells us that Judaism is a big part of his life. He spends his free time discussing the Kabbalah and his days studying the Talmud.
<em>Night</em> narrates the experiences of the author in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the Second World War.
<span>In the 1st half of the 20th century, there were 2 World Wars. Because of that the poetry contains more emotion, so the poetry in that period is a lot heavier. </span>