Night By Elie Wiesel: Film Analysis

Although everyone thinks differently, the book Night by Elie Wiesel, proved to be the best teaching medium for a high school audience. It shows a good quality of information, understanding, and pretty good interest unlike the rest. The other teaching mediums weren’t as good for many reasons. To be specific, the documentary Oprah Interviews Elie Wiesel wasn’t the best wasn’t very interesting because of the way it was done. The whole interview was very slowly paced so it was easy to stop paying attention. They talked about the same things the book explained so you can get the same information from the book as you would from the video, and maybe more. The understanding in the documentary wasn’t as easy as the book because of Elie’s accent, it …show more content…
Throughout the book Elie continuously described his experiences in the Auschwitz camp and he went into extreme detail with every thought and feeling he had. All of the things he talked about would be impossible to forget, especially from a survivor which Elie is, so you know you can trust the source. Although all of the mediums came directly from Elie this one stands out because he goes through everything he experienced little by little and all of the small details. He doesn’t leave anything out at all which shows it has more information in it and the information is explained further. Compared to the documentary and the writing, the quality of information in the book was much better because of the fact that he was able to fully elaborate every thought and every movement around him. The documentary was on the spot and kind of quick so Elie wasn’t able to explain himself that much. With the reading, he didn’t go as much in depth as the book did. This would also be a better style for high schoolers rather than middle schoolers because high schoolers can process information better. They can usually see hidden meanings and understand bigger words and what the information means. This book might be harder for middle schoolers because there’s a lot of information and some of it is intense and might make it hard for them to actual process what it means and retain any information …show more content…
The book was better in this category for a multitude of reasons. One was because it was longer which means there was more explaining to all of the things he said. He went over every thing that happened to him from start to finish and he explained his thoughts and the feelings he had during it all while he was suffering. It helped the reader understand the struggles the Jews faced and what the Germans put them through better than the rest of the teaching styles because he explained everything, not just his feelings like he does in the lecture or not just the different parts to the camp like the interview. He used similes to show comparison as to how he felt at certain times and what it felt like to be treated like that and to see what he saw. Another thing he did was use many different words to give a better meaning to some things so the reader could really tell how much he struggled or how important one thing was to him. In all of the other mediums he did explain himself very well but it wasn’t the same way he did in the book. In the book he made it feel like you were in his shoes, running through the snow, eating the soup, watching his friends get hung, and much more. This helped the reader really understand the situation he was in, and no other medium using this way of writing. High schoolers would also