Night by Ellie Wiesel blog post

Instead of writing about what I found interesting, I decided to write about why I think this book is a good book to teach to students. First of all, the author provides first hand experience. In the synopsis of this novel, it mentions  that he was a teenager when he was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp and then to Buchenwald. Reading a novel about a teenager that went though all of these horrible events and tells us about his memories of losing his family is very sad to read about but it also gives the reader a different perspective on what people like Elie went through. I think the reader will be inspired by Elie's journey because of what he survived through. I also think this book would be very useful to teach to a history class. It can easily take place of just watching a movie about the holcaust and also take place of "the Diary of Anne Frank". (Although the novel about Anne Frank is also a really good read and inspiring as well.  "Night" is simply another choice for a teacher to use rather than using the same famous novel over and over.). A teacher could also pair the two novels together and compare the two characters and what they both went through.