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toc =James Tiernan=

reasons. He explains these reasons in the preface and the foreword
== of this novel. One example of the reasons he wrote this novel is that he wanted to give meaning to his survival of the events that took place during his time in the concentration camps. One other reason he wrote this novel is that he wanted to "try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory"(Weisel xiii). One final example of the reasons the Elie Weisel wrote his novel was because he could not keep silent about the events that he witnessed in the concentration camps, no matter how difficult it was. ==