Night by Elie Wiesel

This was a very interesting story to me. It is both depressing and somewhat beautiful in a weird way. The way the author paints the concentration camps, and life seems so bleak and utterly depressing. I could only imagine how the author's life was like after being rescued from the concentration camps. I can't imagine the flashbacks from the pure evil and torture  the author must have endured. I found it quite strange, but while I was reading this text, I sympathized and felt bad for the young boy in the movie. However, probably due to his attitude, I did not feel the same way about the adult. Of course I did feel a little bit of sympathy for the adult, but I didn't feel it as hardly as I did for the young boy in the story. However, the speech at the end saved the story as a whole and it made me see the beauty of the story as well. I liked this story so much that I would consider teaching this to a high school class. However, I can see that due to the graphic nature of the text it could be pretty hard to get it passed. I do feel that even though the text is quite graphic, this is a story that the students could actually learn from. I don't see it getting past at all for a grade lower than seniors, so if I were to teach this text, I would teach it to high school seniors.