"Night" by Elie Wiesel.

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<p>Anyone ever read it? What'd you think?
Why do you think it's important for teens to read it?</p>

<p>In my opinion it was very disturbing and definitely raised awareness about the reality of the Holocaust. But I found this on a website discussing Night: "The message of this memoir is quite clear: Holocaust is the most horrible action one party can inflict upon another." That's simply not true... Yes, the Holocaust was horrible, but there also are other genocides that are just as terrible; they're not brought to attention.</p>

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<p>Its great. I liked that story. It reveals more fully just how evil man can be. Like my mom says, "Heaven and Hell happen right here on earth."</p>

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<p>The last few images in the book just left me dumbstruck.</p>

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<p>I agree, Spinach. There are many genocides and mass killings that go on un-spoken about. Of course, The Holocaust is the one of the more recent ones, and lots of the survivors are still around today. When you hear of the horrors coming from a primary source, it just seems more horrible than if you would have read it from an Encyclopedia or soemthing.</p>

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<p>I still remember the last sentence and I read it a few years ago.It's really quite gripping.</p>

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<p>Lily, I think that if the encyclopedia described the Holocaust the way Wiesel did, it would seem sort of "biased."<br>
I mean, I agree that the way victims of the Holocaust were murdered/tortured were EXTERMELY brutal, but you can't say that there was NO OTHER genocide like it. Suffering is suffering, whether it's in Europe or not for example.</p>

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<p>Of course suffering is suffering, but that quote you mentioned "The message of this memoir is quite clear: Holocaust is the most horrible action one party can inflict upon another" may refer to the number of people involved (millions) politics (so many countries turned their eyes away from it and pretended it wasnt there) etc. Each genocide is unique, don't you think?</p>

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<p>Yes, each genocide is "unique" in that way. But it annoys me when people act like it's the only massacre that's ever happened.</p>

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<p>The book was disturbing. I agree though that not enough attention goes to other massacres. It also annoys me in school how they never mention the non-Jews killed in the Holocaust.</p>

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<p>I'm just wondering what schools do you guys go to? I mean, when I was learning about the Holocaust way back when, they always taught us there were the gypsies, and homosexuals, and the handicapped, etc. etc. along with the Jews.</p>

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<p>There's a part where the man plays his violin through the night, only to be dead in the morning. </p>

<p>I don't care if he was a Jew, gypsy, Christian, or whatever... that's a disturbing, powerful experience.</p>

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<p>"Night" is a great book...Perhaps one of the most vivid and disturbing of the many books I have read on the Holocaust.</p>

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<p>In school we were taught that Jews weren't the only ones murdered in the Holocaust...</p>

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<p>One of my favorite books ever.
I have never enjoyed reading books for English, but I loved that book so much. I was so engrossed in it that I literally couldn't put it down. It also helps that I enjoy war time stuff, so take that as "error"</p>

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<p>i did not like it, of course i wouldnt like it... it is on a very unhappy subject. its good for making people aware about the Holocaust but i have already read so much on the Holocaust (my 6th grade english teacher practically ONLY taught about the Holocaust) so it wasnt a "shocker" for me like it was for a student or two in my class who had never read about the actual experience. so i am saying, it is of course not a book i would choose to read on my leisure time. just so u know, i am NOT saying that i think the holocaust should be ignored or anything like that.. i just did not care to read it</p>

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<p>I like reading first-account stories of war-time people, they really make you think.</p>

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<p>We're reading it right now in English. Or at least, we're <em>supposed</em> to, lol. The teacher keeps talking about how great it is, but I haven't even started yet.</p>

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<p>That books is so vivid, amazing, necessary.</p>