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Assignment #1: The Preface of Night
Reasons for Writing  //Night//, by Elie Wiesel, is a memoir that presents Wiesel’s personal experience as a victim of the Holocaust. The exact motive that encouraged Wiesel to write his book is not apparent to the author himself, however, the possible reasons are presented by the author in his preface. Wiesel questions himself to discover if he wrote the book to avoid insanity, prevent history from repeating itself, or to preserve his memories of his tragic adolescence. However, the author does believe that it is his responsibility to bear witness for the living and the dead. Wiesel knows that if the Holocaust is forgotten the Nazis will have one last victory in having their crimes erased from history. Wiesel believes that forgetting the victims of the Holocaust is equivalent to killing them a second time. As a result of his beliefs, Elie Wiesel continues perseverance in order to protect the memories of the dead through speeches and the selling of his book to this day.

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