Night by Elie Wiesel is written based upon his first hand experiences as a fifteen year old Jewish boy in Auschwitz, a concentration camp.  Since he is writing from his own memories, the reader experiences all of the feelings in a much more vivid manner than he or she would if it was written second-hand.  I find it interesting that as I was reading through the first portion of this book, I felt extremely connected to the author and protagonist, Wiesel.  His writing captivates the reader in ways only a first hand survivor can.  Elie shocks his audience with heart-dropping realities of life as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust and his descriptions of the horrors that lie within Auschwitz.   As Wiesel presents the material in the book, he comments on certain events that happen with the knowledge and perspective gained after they happened.  Due to the way that Elie Wiesel writes, it foreshadows future events while giving the reader additional information in an intriguing way.  For example, when someone tapped on the sealed window, Elie reveals that he eventually learned who this person was.  He says that the man who knocked on the window was a friend of his fathers, a member of the Hungarian police who promised to warn them of danger.  Elie writes, “Had he been able to speak to us that night, we might still have been able to flea... But by the time we succeeded in opening the window, it was too late.  There was nobody outside.” (14)  I was frustrated because I knew if they had opened the window earlier, they would have been warned of the soon to come dangers.  Wiesel and his family could have possibly escaped if only they had the chance to talk to his man. This style of writing immerses the reader in the text causing them to feel what he feels and experience the frustration of each situation. I find the way Elie writes interesting and easy to connect to due to the way he draws the reader in through every word he writes.  Night may not be a long book, but every word it contains is meaningful and powerful, which captivates the reader.