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 ASSIGNMENT #1: The Preface of Night
Elie Wiesel wrote the memoir //Night// to give his life purpose, to fulfill his responsibility to bear witness, and to do his part in creating a future that is better than his past. As a survivor, Wiesel was driven to write this book to “give meaning to [his] life" by delivering first-hand testimony on his experiences in the concentration camps that “turned his life into one long night." His message is about the horror of the camps and the consequences of ignoring warning signs of impending evil, as his village did in the days leading up to “Final Solution.” Wiesel understands that the degree of evil he faced was so extreme that it can be hard to believe, but that he must break through to readers that we cannot ignore or deny such evil ever again. His duty to bear witness is to honor the millions who died and to protect future generations. For Wiesel, allowing the world to forget the victims of the Holocaust would be like “killing them a second time.” For the children of today and future generations, what happened to them must never be forgotten so that our future will not repeat the mistakes of our past.



ASSIGNMENT #2: Figurative Language Poem

 * Moishe

Teaching, Helping, Warning**


 * As Scared as a Child**
 * Like a Puppy to his Father**
 * A Light in the Darkness**


 * Fleeing**

Toward the Light**
 * Away from the Evil



ASSIGNMENT #3: Found Poem
** Home. Spring 1944. Fascist steel helmets. Life returned to “normal.” Yellow Star. We were still smiling. Then came the ghettos. Still not worried.
 * Descent Into Night

 Transports. Doors clank shut. Crammed into cattle cars. Huddled against each other. Stench. Ahead lies a road paved with suffering.  Flames. Barbed wire. Faster! Faster! Move! A tall chimney into a black sky. Men to the left, women to the right. We were coming closer and closer to the pit.



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