McMahon will be teaching Elie Wiesel's Night starting in the summer of 2011. It is a slim autobiography, barely 110 pages long. It is also one of the most powerful books McMahon has ever read.
The assignment will be thus:
One of the striking features of Night is the tension between nihilism--the loss of faith in God and humanity in the presence of the Holocaust--and the implicit moral stand Wiesel asserts by writing this book.
Develop a thesis that explores this tension and the moral conclusions--if any-we are to make from this tension.
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