While removing the tonsils (tonsillectomy) is sometimes recommended for tonsil stones, this carries a significant risk of pain and bleeding and should only be used as an absolute last resort, if at all. Also, you are still at risks of strep throat without tonsils, a deadly mouth disease almost similar to sore throat.
Running Out of Time is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix, published in 1996.
Franklin writes that Night is the account of the 15-year-old Eliezer, a semi-fictional construct, told by the 25-year-old Elie Wiesel. This allows the 15-year-old to tell his story from the post-Holocaust vantage point of Night's readers.