Reddit reviews Night (Night)

Elie Weisel's Night is an astonishing look at the horrors of World War II.

Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running covers mostly the ins and outs, mundane to nontrivial aspects of his writing career.

If you're interested in a graphic novel type of autobiography, there are two that are excellent:
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life. The former is Satrapi's account of a young girl growing up in Iran and the latter is Tatsumi's perspective on post-war Japan. Both are very good.

Both are very disturbing in different ways for different reasons.

It is like reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel. The book goes over how the Holocaust wasn't just about murdering people, but about destroying culture and changing idealogy. Elie Wiesel as a kid living in the concentration camp eventually resented his father for being weak because of how they fucked with his head. In a way I find that more terrifying than watching someone get butchered in a Saw movie.

Edit: Speaking of which, if you really like American History X, then read Night.

[Night by Eli Wiesel] (http://www.amazon.com/Night-Elie-Wiesel/dp/0374500010) It's a fantastic read, non-fiction by the way.

Amazon Link because everyone deserves to read it at least once.

It's very short, around a hundred pages, and only $6 USD with free Prime shipping.

It's a truly powerful book from an actual Holocaust survivor.

• Invisible Man vs. Native Son; each takes a different approach to the same topic and time period
  
• Beowulf (any translation) vs. Grendel; alternate perspectives on the same event... for example, you could talk about how modern literature has ultimately become more character-centric and detailed rather than actions-based
  
• Following this train of thought, you could also do The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Wicked.
  
• Any two novels dealing with the Holocaust (e.g. Night and The Painted Bird)
  
• In Cold Blood and Devil in the White City; compare and contrast dramatic nonfiction execution
  
• Interview with the Vampire and Dracula; detail how portrayal of vampires parallels societal attitudes towards homosexuals and how vampire novels from different time periods deal with vampires differently; PM me if you'd like more info on this, as I'm currently taking a class on it. Alternatively, you could do Interview and then The Vampire Lestat, the next book in the Vampire Chronicles, and analyze how the vampire characters change after the post-AIDS crisis.
  
• I second the suggestion of The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises.
  
• Prozac Nation and The Bell Jar; two women of two different decades writing about their depression. Of course, The Bell Jar is fictional, but thought to be highly autobiographical.
  
  Please let us know which ones you end up doing!

>Last I checked, you could leave the camps if you opt to deport.

Source? Because that's absolutely fucking wrong.

>I don’t recall anything about gas chambers starting at the end of the war.

Then I'd like to inform you of my source that recalls just that.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374500010/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_K5mBDbW004ASB

Night

I really encourage you to read the book Night by Ellie Wiesel. I think everyone should have to read this in school growing up, we covered it in 7th grade and I still remember the impact it had on me. It’s the autobiographical story of Elie, who was a young Jewish teen when the holocaust happened, and what he experienced in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

The Giver

Farenheit 451

Night

Still I Rise

First 2 are fiction, emotional and personal growth overall is the centerpoint of the Giver. Farenheit451 is a great story on its face; but has a deeper (but easily recognized) agenda to pursue. Night is Wiesel's own story from WWII (child/teen in concentration camp). NOTE Night is not an easy read so be sure you're ready. I first read it probably 20 years ago and last read it maybe 4 years ago and my eyes are glistening as I type this.

I was going to add I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but decided to start with "Still I Rise" (poem) is a better place to start.

Night by Elie Wiesel

Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi

Night by Elie Wiesel

When I was a kid: Maniac McGee, Danny:Champion of the World and Night

Now: Tunes for Bears to Dance To and Ghost in the Shell graphic novel.

The last book on WW2 I read was Elie Wiesel's Night. I can't remember ever being wracked with uncontrollable sobs from a book before or since. I avoid WW2 literature now, but this book does look rather interesting.

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There are a bunch of different reprints, but this amazon link should have the back cover available to view:

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Elie-Wiesel/dp/0374500010/ref=nodl_

But I’d still check the other editions if that isn’t the one because (just personally) I’ve seen at least 5 different covers.

If she is mature enough to handle darker themes, I'd recommend something along the lines of Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men or perhaps Night by Elie Wiesel. They're relatively short works, but they will be eye-opening to first-time readers of both age groups.

I recently read The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass. It's a really great book that gives a very unbiased almost clinical account of slavery and, at least of me, that makes it that much more intense and saddening. It reminded me of Night in that it provides clinical, levelheaded presentation the holocaust and I could help but seeing the awful similarities between the two. I read some depressing books.