Night By Elie Wiesel

Personally, I feel that the story “Night,” was a good book that made you want to keep reading and reading. But technically I wouldn’t teach this book in my English class-room, because not only would this story be far fetched with some of the reading assignments that I would like to accomplish. But also, I would rather teach other books that have similar themes and ideas that has more of an impact on these themes and ideas. I would rather teach the book of “Anne Frank,” if I was going to teach about the holocaust and how inhumane the Jewish people faced during World War II, but I would also teach the book “Escape from Camp 14,” which is about North Korea and up to date political topics that would get my students more engaged within a discussion group. However, I would have this book on my selves for students to read if they were truly interested with the story. Yet, I’m not bashing this book or even questioning why we read this story, because it does give great experiences that happened to the main character during World War II, and what he experienced during his time in the holocaust from the amount of deaths that happened and his family dying as well. But I would feel that it would be farfetched to teach this curriculum within an English course, and I feel that I would get some backlash from the students’ parents. Henceforth, I would probably teach this book in my history class, as it would be easy to explain why I have their children reading this book. But also, it would allow me to paint a better picture with my students the effects of the holocaust and how it ruined and killed a lot of Jewish people and their family members who were killed for no reason. I feel that this was a great book, but it would be hard to teach in an English course rather than having it for one of my history courses that I plan to teach.