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__ ASSIGNMENT #1: The Preface of Night __
Wiesel’s Reasons

//Night//, a memoir by Elie Wiesel was written for many various reasons. One reason Wiesel wrote //Night// was because he felt as if he need to give meaning to his survival. Another reason Wiesel might have written the book to preserve a record of the situation he, along with many others, observed as a child. Ehen weisel wrote the book, he was most worried that he would say too much, instead of too little. Wiesel also thought that he wrote the book either not to go mad, or to go mad to understand the pure madness that he witnessed. Wiesel felt as one of these witnesses, he had an obligation to stop the enemy from winning again, by allowing what they did to be erased from memory. The last reason was to prevent his past from becoming the next generation’s future. The reason Wiesel wrote the new translation, //Night,// was because when he first wrote the book //And the World Remained Silent//, he was an unknown writer who was just getting started, and who's English was far from good. No matter what reason Elie Wiesel wrote his book, many readers have learned the horrible truth about what happened during the Holocaust.



Fire Hot and smokey Schorching, crackling, burning As hot as the sun and red like blood A burning chamber of death Destroying In rooms with jews



The Ride of Your Life

The cars were sealed The wheels began to grind The way back irrevocably cut off We felt the abyss opening beneath our feet We had fallen into a trap

Dusk began to fill th wagon The night seemed endless A wrethed stench began to fill the air Our terror could no longer be contained Tomorrow could be worse yet

Thirst became intolerable The afternoon went by slowly We had arrived in Birkenau Madness had infected all of us Our eyes opened, too late.



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