It’s a bit disappointing that my seventh-grade class had us read Seth McEvoy’s Batteries Not Included. Descriptions including psychologically graphic and horrifying make this book both a necessary and compelling reading. The legitimate nightmare and anguish of Elie Wiesel’s experience is psychologically graphic and horrifying. That this happened during the lifetime of people I grew up loving brings this particular account and atrocity closer to home that is likely about anchoring. The psychological torture of Wiesel’s experience, and so many others like him that had it as bad or worse (not sure what might be worse … American slavery seems at least similar in context and cruelty). Elie Wiesel’s Night was an emotionally difficult book to read.
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