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=**Landon Pierce** =

Assignment #1 The Preface of Night
In the preface of the book //Night//, Elie Wiesel explains his worries for the world and why he wrote the famous book, //And the World Has Remained Silent//. The preface of night tells us that he was pondering why he wrote it. A couple of the reasons were, to keep himself from going mad, or to Leave behind his legacy of memories. When he was writing this preface he was worrying about us having to pass on the troubles of the world to our children, or for his family being killed.



=**ASSIGNMENT #2: Figurative Language Poem**=

Watchtowers High and wise Waiting, watching, thinking As wise as an old owl, but watchful like a hawk A prisoner's worst nightmare Watching Over the keepers of the dead

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ASSIGNMENT #3: Found Poem
No hope to less hope

The world would never tolerate such crimes. Like cattle in a slaughterhouse. The wind of revolt died down. We were on the threshold of death. We were withered trees in the heart of a desert. The clubs and whips were cracking around me. We would all soon be shot like dogs.



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[|Picture of Elie Wiesel] [|Picture of the Watchtower] [|Picture of Jews in a cattle car]