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__Assignment#1: The Preface of //Night[[image:http://www.viterbo.edu/uploadedImages/centers/ethics/wiesel%20%20pic.jpg width="113" height="178" align="right"]]//__
The Memory of Thousands Elie Weisel a holocaust survivor wrote a non-fictional novel about his life in the holocaust, //And The World Remained Silent,// abridged to the novel “Night.”Specifically the preface of the novel //Night// is meant to give the reader a sense of what some six million Jews went through under the reign of the Third Reich. Also it includes his views on a personal level and somewhat of what he went through. To begin with, he feels it is his duty to contribute to the world’s awareness by writing the novel //Night.// He reminisces about how the Jews lost everything but miraculously bounced back in light of religion and hope.Thus,Weisel showing us the core sorce of what pulled him through. Desperately clinging onto faith the Jews along with Weisel pulled through events such as the death march to Buchenwald. Here he is intentionaly describing the Jews strength through so much hardship. Another reson for him writing the preface is to bear witness as to the horrible events that happened. Lastly, we can tell he wrote Night and the preface as one last pationate avail to Hitler and his horrible regeme.In the preface he belives it was not a miracle with him surviving.

__ASSIGNMENT #2: Figurative Language Poem__.
Machine Guns High and Mighty Manned, firing and killing Like death among every bullet and life among every cry Among the firing squad along those six million dead



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Hope to the savior Sirens screaming Alert The tormenting hunger, no food Herded toward the Appelplatz

Time for resistance Men armed everywhere Gunshots Fleeing SS among exploding grenades Resistance finally taking charge

In the afternoon At the gates of Buchenwald Six The first American tank stood there Meaning we were finaly….

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