Summary Of I Remember Night By Elie Wisel

Dear Members of the Make Believe ISD School Board, You have no right to ban the book Night by Elie Wisel. In the article I Remember Night by Clemantine Wamariya, she writes about how Night by Elie Wisel spoke to her as a person who has also gone through genocide and sparked her start as an activist. If you choose to ban the book Night by Elie Wisel you are going against our first amendment. The first amendment states that we the people have “Freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly.” By denying us as students the right to read Night by Elie Wisel you are infringing on our right to speech and press. The entire reasoning for us, people of the united states of america, to have in print that we can say our mind and write whatever we desire is because of the control of the British, who killed anyone who said something that they didn’t agree with. Clemantine Wamariya states in the text that “when what I call ‘noise’ others called ‘genocide’” She had not known there was a word for what she had gone through in Rwanda nor did she know that others 50 years before had expirenced the same thing. If she had not read the book Night she might not have known about the holocaust or

Night is too graphic for middle school students, you might say. But you are missing that it is supposed to be graphic, it's supposed to be sad and depressing, it's supposed to make you feel disgusted because it's about the Holocaust and a survivor's story. The holocaust was a loathsome event that affected millions upon millions of people and it should not be forgotten. CLemantine Wamarias people knew the genocide that they faced not a “genocide” but as “noice” because they were not informed about what the holocaust was and what genocide is. If we want our society to progress and grow and become better we must learn from our past and do anything in our power to prevent history from