As a reader, this book made me feel as if I was in the book in the place of Moshie as well as the rest of the victims of the Holocaust. The descriptions were pleasant and horrifying at the same time yet they always rolled off the tongue with ease. Some phrases even consisted of some logic I never had thought about as portrayed in this quote. "Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment. Why do I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?"(4) Wiesel writes the book unlike any I have ever encountered before. Whether it be the astoundingly extraordinary writing structure of his short yet informative sentences, or the unique English used that is not always used today, it is a very new experience of reading that is exciting to be immersed into. Story wise, the book is very saddening and frustrating reading about what these poor innocent people had to suffer through. I began to forget that this book was a true story that actually occurred considering the fact of how horrible it really was. A portion of the first couple chapters really stood out out to me when in the beginning, the German and Hungarian lieutenants got the Jew’s to believe that the camps were really not all that bad as this quote explains. “There was a labor camp on site. The conditions were good. Families would not be separated (27).” Of course as the book goes on the conditions begin to seem worse and worse. These first set chapters are a great way to gain understanding of what occurred at the beginning of the Holocaust and what would become of the Jews as time went on.