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Assignment #1: The Preface of Night.
Elie Wiesel’s Explanation for Night

Elie Wiesel explains why he wrote the book Night. Elie wrote it to try to understand what kind of madness went through people in history to start a massacre like the holocaust. He said he also wrote it to tell of what happened so that history would not repeat itself. He also said he wrote it for the adolescents to understand what death and evil are. Elie first wrote the book in Yiddish, which was a much longer version that any of the others. But when he wrote the book he was worried that the book said to much than rather it saying to little. Elie was also furious that after the war and the Holocaust that most of the world remained silent and people tried to cover up history. Elie said that Germany went back to a normal government and most of the Nazi war criminals went back to living happy, peaceful lives. Elie was also mad that antiemetic people and groups around the world are trying to manipulate people that the Holocaust was a hoax. For those two reasons Elie wanted to tell the people that those war criminals were bad people and that the Holocaust was very real. Elie Wiesel really just wanted to write a book about the Holocaust for everyone to remember before all of the survivors are no longer around.