Pros And Cons Of Night By Elie Wiesel

Some shows and movies on Netflix have a label in a corner that censors them from the content they have. Those in charge often censor material that they think is objectionable because of the images or information they provide people with. The GISD school board has been considering censoring the book Night by Elie Weisel. Night is a nonfiction novel by Elie Weisel that depicts the author’s own experiences while being placed in a concentration camp during the Holocaust in WWII. The school board believes in censoring and banning the book Night by Elie Wiesel because of violence and the explicit events, however, if the GISD school board bans the book it will take away from students learning on past events and the consequences of those events. Banning Night will take away from the students learning about events in the past such as the Holocaust. In the passage the author gives us a detailed insight on his life during the Holocaust while he himself was a

The author states how workers in German towns would throw bread into the wagons full of prisoners in which the author says, “Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest.” Later he watched something similar occur, in which people would throw coins into the water for the natives to retrieve. In the text it is stated by the author that, “an elegant Parisian lady took pleasure in this game. When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady: “Please don’t throw any more coins!”.” This implies that he learned from his previous experience as a prisoner that the boys would be willing to go as far as killing one another in order to get the coins. It is his past experience that allows him to recognise how this fighting will lead to more hatred in