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Assignment # 1: The Preface of Night
Reasons for Writing Night The novel //Night// by Elie Wiesel is a dark, chilling, terrifying novel describing the horrors of Elie Wiesel living through the Holocaust as a young teenager and the horrors he endured. This novel also demonstrates many reasons why Wiesel chose to write this novel. Having survived, he needed to “give some meaning to [his] survival” Wiesel viii. Wiesel felt that given another chance it was destined for him to give importance and thought to his survival. He was also convinced that “this period in history would be judged one day, [he] knew that [he] must bear witness" Wiesel, viii and felt he must protect the meaning of the fact that he was in the concentration camp. By being in a concentration camp, he felt that it was an important experience that must be protected by recording all that he saw. Another reason Wiesel felt that he needed to share this experience with readers was “to protect the integrity of the experience, as well as protect the children of today and those born tomorrow”. He was concerned and “does not want his past to become their future” Wiesel, xv. Wiesel had to face such terrible cruelty during this experience and made a serious decision to do everything humanly possible to protect the true meaning of his experience. Many of these reasons inspired Wiesel to write the novel and for him to look back on what happened in his past.

Assignment #2: Figurative Language Poem
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Mrs. Schachter
Mrs. Schachter Mad and crazy Crying, hallucinating, screaming Like someone had just seen a ghost and scared as a little kid in the dark

A single weed in a field of flowers Hurting Beside her son without support

Insanity The separation had totally shattered her Fire! I see a fire! Howling and pointing through the window Fire! I see a fire! There was nothing, only the darkness of the night Fire! I see a fire! It was as though she was possessed by some evil spirit Fire! I see a fire! A few men forced her to sit down, then bound and gagged her Fire! I see a fire! She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal Fire! I see a fire! No one felt like beating her anymore, the heat, the air, the thirst were suffocating us   Fire! I see a fire! We began to pull into a station, someone near a window read to us: Auschwitz Fire! I see a fire! As the train stopped, this time we saw the flames rising from the tall chimney



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