Response to Night

WOW! What an emotionally difficult book to read! I had never read a piece of literature such as Night before, and let me tell you that I loved it was nonfiction. Reading nonfiction had never crossed my mind before, and especially when it comes to Holocaust literature, I only think of The Diary of Anne Frank. However, I am now immensely interested in reading my nonfiction pieces of literature because those are real world stories by real world people. I think when any student reads this book, they will be emotionally affected and floured at the notion that the details actually happened about 60 years ago. The details in the story are gruesome and very descriptive, but they are the true events that the author witnessed and was a part of. I think that students today can greatly benefit from this novel because it is nonfiction, and it will remind students of the horrors hatred can inflict upon the world. If anything, this novel is a great reminder to appreciate humanity and fight for social justice. If I was going to teach this novel, I would print off a map and highlight the journey the author took and the different places him and his father were taken after they were ripped away from their homes. I think that the visual journey of the author will make the details more concrete to the students and allow them to see how many different regions the war affected. Overall, I think this book is a great piece of nonfiction that should continue to be taught in the classroom in order to ensure that students are aware of the devastation mankind can inflict on one another when prejudice and hatred consume people.