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=Aidan Gorey=

Assignment #1 Preface of Night
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So Others May Know Elie Wiesel writes his memoir to express what happened during his time in Auschwitz. He believes that people could not really understand what happened unless they had experienced it. Elie also thinks that since he is a survivor of Auschwitz, he needs to give meaning to his survival. Elie recalls many horrific memories and regrets, such as not saving his father from death and the Jewish children burned in the furnace. Elie recalls this so he can help people realize the sorrow and pain experienced when a person loses someone close to him or her. Elie wants to publish the horrible details that he has experienced in his life so people will understand his pain. Elie also realizes that he will be judged one day and he will have to bear witness. Elie had his autobiography translated so that he can tell more people about his experience. He believes that the bodies and ashes of Birkenau give more proof of the inhumane actions of the Nazis than do the testimonies said against them. Elie fears that he will not be able to tell his story. He has difficulty finding the correct words and worries that he cannot finish the story.



Assignment #2: Figurative Language Poem
Auschwitz

Dark and Deadly Killing, Burning, and Crying

Like Gladiators in the Coliseum and a pack of gazelles surrounded by a pack of Lions.

Fires of life going out every second

Exterminating Behind a fence of blades



Assignment #3: New Found Poem
Arrival to Hell The smell of burning flesh The beloved objects we had carried with us, left behind in the wagon Men to the left, women to the right Seeing my mother my sisters move to the right Saw them walking farther and farther away Walking with my father, with the men An old man fell to the ground Nearby an SS man replaced his revolver in his holister My grip tightened on my father, all I could think of was not to lose him Not to remain alone Another inmate appeared You should have hanged yourselves instead of coming here Do you see the flames, do you see them That’s where they will take you, over there will be your grave =Resources= []

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