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the murder of his family and his own survival in the hell of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
His account reaches a person at the most elemental level and shows them light and also
unforgettable darkness. At the concentration camp, Jews were made to live in inhuman
conditions, where there was a lot to endure but less to eat. All prisoners were the victims
of the same fate and were made to endure the same mental and physical agony. Night is
taught as part of the grade 10 curriculum. Hence, in my opinion, Night should continued
to be taught as part of the Grade 10 curriculum because it gives students the historical
image of the Nazis’ brutality in exterminating the Jews in Germany in 1940’s, and the
importance of love and faith in such inhuman conditions.
Firstly, “Night” is a historical novel and gives a clear image of Nazis’ brutality in
exterminating the Jews. It tells the students about the hatred Germans and particularly
Hitler had for Jews. Jews were depopulated by the anger of Hitler, their homes and
properties were taken and they were deported from their country. Night gives
. . .
Consequently, I would suggest that the novel night should be taught as the Grade
10 curriculum. He
doubted God’s absolute justice who had chosen them from among the races to be tortured
day and night and to see their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters in the crematory.
Secondly, Night teaches the students how important the love is in such
circumstances. It is even hard to imagine how prisoners were disrobed
and distressed. He wants to find out
whether we can demote our base instincts and kill the Satan within us. In those
days, their faith worked a lot by providing them hop to be freed very soon.
In these circumstances, the only thing that kept him going and provide him “reason to
struggle” was his love for his father. But while, he thought of his father running at his side, and said to himself:
“My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me… He was running by my side,
out of breath, at the end of his strengths, at his wit’s end. And if he punishes us relentlessly, it is sign that he loves us all the
more”(p.
Akiba Drumer, one of the prisoners says: “ God is testing us. a vivid
image of how the Jews were killed. Faith provided prisoners with a
“reason to struggle”.
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