Resumo de Night - Elie Weisel

Night is one example of why truth is very important. In Night, Wiesel recounts his experiences in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Two reasons why Night is important: 1) in recent months, the president of Iran has said that he does not think that the Holocaust really occurred. Wiesel?s firsthand account shows just how absurd such a claimis. 2) Wiesel convicts humanity of what sort of suffering we are capable of allowing to occur. Night is painful to read at points, but important to read so that we can remember what happened and not let it happen again. Night provides the reader glimpses of horrors that the rest of humanity forgot. I read it one day, yet its message will stay with me for the rest of my days. It is powerful and thought provoking, making you re-evaluate/re-establish your views of the Holocaust and your sense of duty to human kind around the world. Elie Wiesel takes you there not only in sights and sound, but in spirit. Everyone should be exposed to Night. But if we don?t read it in schools, do you really think it will be remembered. Will students read it on there own? No. That?s why schools should make it mandatory. I propose that this book should be a required reading for all 15-16 year olds in our public school system. Night provides students with a real example of one of the very large benefits of freedom paid with by the blood of our ancestors by telling a story of another 15 year old with a vastly different set of life experiences. Some may argue that Night is a very disturbing book. Yes it?s true. But that?s why we are reading it, to prevent such a disturbing event from happening again and to create a more peaceful tolerable world. Others may argue that there is a lot of Jewish content in this book. While that is also true religion shouldn?t prevent us from reading about an event. We are all human beings and are equal in every way. Others may also argue that they didn?t like his mood. He was too much about the Nazi and stuff. It got boring after a while. Like "a-7713" (Wiesel, 49) that is my number. It?s got no enthusiasm and is depressing. While I totally agree with that, we are not reading this book for joy, we are reading about a tragic event and everyone should respect that, understand it and not be ignorant of it, just because it?s slightly depressing. Life isn?t always a happy place. Lastly students may argue I did not like this book because it used too many descriptive quotes like "That night the soup tasted of corpses" and "He began to beat him with an iron bar." These are the things that kids my age should not be reading because it could give them bad ideas. While that is partially true students at age 15-16 should know better. And I being a student of age 16 certainly wouldn?t go beating anyone with an n iron bar or anything else destructive and I highly doubt anyone else my age would. Elie Weisel remarks in his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, "... I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices."Yet, we have forgotten; certainly, the world has forgotten. Completely forgotten. This novel while depressing and hard to read at times is truly a moving piece of literature. Elie Wiesel has much strength to be able to even survive not only one concentration camp but three. I can?t imagine not just his physical strength to live on with almost no food and have to work all day but his mental strength to carry him for so long. Surely you can not disagree to read such a book. A book that gave the world freedom, a book that recollected the dreadful events of the Holocaust that so many of us not only have forgotten but yet don?t care. A book called Night. This is a piece of living history that should never be forgotten. It is a great piece of historical literature, and it should be made mandatory for all high schoolers to read and study.

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