Should The Book Night Be Banned

Why books shouldn’t be banned

There have been recent talks about the banning of books throughout school districts. Especially this book titled Night by Elie Wiesel which was based on the events that happened in Germany and the Jewish community in WWII. In this book, it shows a first-hand perspective of a boy named Eliezer and what he witnessed before, during, and after WWII. Without books such as these, how would we know the true horrors? Even though some people believe that books should be banned because of the spread of false information and explicit content; however, books shouldn’t be banned because it may cause ignorance and it limits perspective.

If the book Night is banned it can cause ignorance in kids. Based on chapter 1, it shows the beginning of what Elie is going through like how when the Hungarian police were acting all nice until suddenly they became aggressive when transporting Jews to the ghettos. Or in chapters 2 and 3 when the SS officers began to hit people in the cattle crafts and divided men and women after

According to the text in chapters 5 and 6, Elie tells his story about the begging of the end of the Jewish prisoners being sent off running to an unknown destination as stated at the end of chapter 5. In chapters 6 and 7, the story talks about how Elie and the other Jews were forced to keep running and if they stopped they would be shot down. And in chapter 8 when they finally reached their destination in Buchenwald they were told to take showers so they could be burned in the crematorium. Some people might have thought during WWII it was just all about the fighting and the effect on us as Americans. But most people won't look deeper into the effects of the Jewish people that were being eradicated just because the germans didn’t want there to be evidence of what they were doing to these innocent