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Assignment No. 1 - Preface to //Night//
Reason of //Night// Elie Wiesel’s reasons for writing //Night// could be numerous, but only a few really stand out. He wonders if he wrote it so he could overcome the madness, or to become the madness and learn the reason for the madness that his terrifying experience gave. He also knew that he would write it because he was a survivor of a terrible thing in history’s past. He knew he wanted to help stop genocide, to prevent the same from happening again as it so often does in history’s wrath. Just as history repeats itself, humans learn from past mistakes and can change the future. That is what Elie Wiesel is trying to do by writing his novel //Night.//

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Assignment #3 Found Poem
Shall I Forget? Shall I forget the night of silence, Shall I forget facing the Angel of Death? //Never. // Shall I forget men reciting Kaddish for themselves, Shall I forget to remember the brutality? //Never. // Shall I forget the crazed men, Shall I forget the smoke that deprive me of faith? //Never. // Shall I desire to listen to man, Shall I desire to remember and to learn? //No longer. // Shall I desire to sleep and to dream, Shall I desire to forgive and to forget? //No longer. // Shall I stand petrified, deprived of all faith, Shall I let myself be dragged and beaten? //**No longer**. //