I have read all three. Night is a book written in the first person of his life and survival at Auschwitz. He never again saw his mother and sisters, after their first day at Auschwitz. His father and he labored in the concentration camp and the story of Night details their life there.
My objection with this years (check out my review of last years selection in the July 2005 archive of Brian’s Blog) summer reading requirement is that Night should not have been optional, it should have been required reading.
With Dawn, it is written from a third person account of the struggle with anger, hatred, death and murder. A very intriguing book worth the short afternoon of time takes to read.
With Day, it also is written from a third person account of the struggles with the past and temptation of suicide. This also is a short read and is a book that is relevant to today.
I found these books published in one binding as a trilogy. The books themselves were written in the era 1955 – 1960.
