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Assignment 1: Preface of Night


Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel tells about his past conflicts and controversy about genocide through the autobiographical book //Night.// In the preface of //Night// Elie tells the reader why he first wrote the book //And the World Remained Silent//. Elie states he wrote the book to give meaning to his survival, and ‘“to try to prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory’”(Wiesel viii). Wiesel also believes he had a strong moral obligation to write this book. Elie wrote night in worry that the crimes and of Birkenau would go unheard of and that in translating his book in English the reader would miss some of the details that the Yiddish book offered. Nervous about translating his book and cutting it down, he did, and published the abridged version, //Night.// Elie translated //And the World Remained Silent// so he could describe it all people of what he went through and how it must be stopped. Many readers ask why he published //Night// so much later after the original. He simply replies back, ‘“[m]y English was far from good’”. Wiesel shows great courage in showing the wrong doings in this world, and fights strongly to promote help to those who cry out but no one replies (like what happened to his father). In doing so, Wiesel has won the Nobel Peace Prize, and still continues to fight for the innocent victims of unjust

Assignment 2: Elie Wiesel Images of //Night//
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Concentration Camps  ** Concentration camps Deadly and horrific Misleading, screaming, destroying Like a world full of crippled souls and as sinful as the devil himself A secret graveyard from the world Killing Without hesitation of one’s mind

Assignment #3: Found Poem
Day to Night A sunny spring day A few white clouds in the sky Rolling hazelnuts on sidewalks People strolled…carefree We ate, we sang

Night fell Leaving my mother and Tzipora forever The angel of death A long road paved with suffering I had not answered And the terrible master of the universe chose to be silent

Resources: [|Bodies] [|Day to Night]