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Southwest Licking School District
Literature Selection Review
Teacher: Paula Ball School: Watkins Memorial High School
Book Title: Night Genre: Non-Fiction
Author: Elie Wiesel Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Summary and summary citation:
From Barnes and Noble:
Night is Elie Wiesel s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man s capacity for inhumanity to man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
Instructional Rationale/Objectives:
Read and comprehend literature at grade level.
Cite textual evidence to support what text says and draw inferences
Review #1:
by Hunter Ashton
Created on: August 26, 2007
The secrets and desires of a man's heart know the depths of ecstasy and anguish that can be inflicted by one or many people. Women can shred the soul of a man with one word. A mother can heal a wound and caress the spirit with her encouraging words and loving kisses. What truly
motivates the heart of a man or woman to desire love? Power? Recognition? The core of a person wants to be recognized, respected, for who they are and what they have accomplished. This need to be accepted has caused many a man to improve the world in kindness towards humanity, while others have caused regrettable tragedy and heartache for people. But some, however, exceed the line of a forgivable "mistake". The drive to improve humanity has become the force of controlling humanity, even eliminating civilizations "for the sake of humanity." These are the men who seek to become like a god on earth. Elie Wiesel the author of Night was only one among millions who became a victim of the Holocaust. The Holocaust has come and gone, leaving a deep scar of remorse and hatred through generations of people, but is it truly over? Years after World War II, Night is still relevant.
Review #2:
Amazon.com Review
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died.
What alternate text(s) could also fulfill the instructional requirements?
Title: The Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
Document any potentially controversial content:
Graphic depicting of violence during the Holocaust and concentration camp conditions
GRADE LEVEL(S): 9 and 10
Reading level of this title (if applicable): 9/
Date Submitted to website: August 1, 2011
Suggested Professional Literary Review Sources:
School Library Journal
Horn Book
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)
