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Assignment #1: The Preface of Night
The Reason to Write

Elie Wiesel does not know why he documented his experiences during the holocaust in //And the World Has Remained Silent,// his first book. Wiesel does, however, know several possible reasons for writing this memoir and addresses them in the preface. Three of the reasons seem to be the most likely, they are; to preserve his memories of the holocaust, to comprehend the madness of such a genocide, and to share with the world what had really happened to the Jewish men, women, and children in the Nazi concentration camps. //And the World Has Remained Silent// failed to sell in its beginning due to the fact that it was written in Yiddish, a language spoken mostly by people who would have liked to forget the holocaust had ever happened. Since then the memoir has been rewritten into an abridged version called //Night//. //Night// proved to have issues, only this time Wiesel could do something about them. Wiesel realized that the rewrite was poorly translated and it lacked key pieces; so he decided to have his wife, Marion, translate it instead of the translator assigned by his British publisher. Marion’s translation was a huge improvement because she knew Wiesel’s voice better than anyone. Today the Marion rewrite has sold over six million copies in the United States alone and is written in 30 different languages worldwide. Despite being such a notable author, Wiesel’s greatest accomplishment is not a literary one, it is however a peace keeping one. In 1986 Elie Wiesel was awarded arguably the highest award on earth, the Nobel Peace Prize. Even though he has been successful in his life, Elie Wiesel still has great worries about the future of the world. He still thinks about the Nazi war criminals who escaped justice and are allowed to roam throughout Eastern Europe as free men; he worries that the world may forget about the countless innocent people who died during the holocaust, which, in his mind, would be like killing the a second time; but he fears, more than words can describe, that the world will forget the holocaust ever happened allowing history to repeat itself once again. Today, Wiesel uses any way he can to prevent such terror from ever reoccurring including speeches, working with various organizations, and writing, all in the name of world peace.



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__Assignment #2: Figurative Language Poem__
Nazis

Cruel and deadly Shooting, burning, and torturing

Like wild animals, and as refined as a Swiss watch

A roaming army of genocide Across Europe in the night

__Assignment #3: Found Poem__
Prison

Ordinary inmates, Tramps, flea ridden dogs, endured the suffering, thousands, abandoned,

the gallows the crematoria Auschwitz Birkenau abandoned

Jews, Jews, corpses, empty and dead, in concentration camp abandoned



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Picture of Ellie Wiesel [|Swastika] [|Auschwitz]