Ellie Wiesel's Night Analysis

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One would say if you were to read the memoire Night that it is powerful, classrooms today are now expected to read it as it is part of the curriculum. Which without it some may never know what happened during the Holocaust. The memoir is one of many reads about the holocaust but is the only one that students across Saskatchewan are expected to read. Ellie speaks volumes as he has pulled those memories from his thoughts, put them into words and his work will never be forgotten by the people who have read it. Ellie’s memoire is effective, the power of one voice has a greater impact than listing statistics, and also it has an impact on the reader when reading about someone who is struggling with the barest of means.
Ellie Wiesel, in the memoire Night was effective because he wanted to educate and inform the general public about what happened during the Holocaust. When one reads the memoire you can paint a picture inside your mind of what it would
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He has the reader’s attention. He has an effective way in doing so that he has got students talking in a way that they have never done before. The power of his voice has impacted us all in a way that has us looking at life a little bit differently, as we now see what it was like for Ellie. He has impacted us all to not ever forget the gruesome and shocking things that happened to them while in Auschwitz. The influence that it had on him when having to live with the barest of means. Nobody will ever forget, we must keep history alive. We are the future and if we don’t understand what happened yesterday then we can never understand the future of our children. We must educate and learn that without understanding our past and that this all happened without anyone ever knowing, and still some people skeptical. History will repeat itself. There are many things going on today that are ignored people are still without a