My brother was assigned to read this for his English class this

Because schools generally teach you to think what they want you to think, rather than to think well.

>>8968769
>reading fictional kike propaganda

>>8968769
Because part of a school's job is to show students how disciplines are interconnected. Night makes a great showcase of how literature, politics, and history combine. Really literary books are great, bit not relevant to a basic high school education.

As far as "narratives" go, the holocaust-was-fucked-up narrative is a pretty easy one to get behind. Unless you're a dumbass from /pol/ who thinks there's an actual jewish conspiracy.

>>8968792
I've actually heard people say that Night was mostly fictionalized reports and Wiesel never really went through half of that shit.

>>8968792
>he thinks Night is real

>>8968792

>>>/Reddit/

>>8968769
Because high school English teachers are extreme liberals, and white apologist ideology is heavily taught in public schools.

>>8968792
It's not so much a Jewish conspiracy as an Allies psychological operation used to crush post-war nationalist sentiment through guilt by association. It worked very well until recently.

>the scene where Elie loses his family to typhus and his friends to starvation from Allied bombing runs on supply lines
Harrowing stuff.

>>8968804
>everything I don't like is reddit