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Assignment #1: The Preface of //Night//
//Night// preface paragraph Elie Wiesel, winner of many prizes and awards and Holocaust survivor, wrote the novel //Night// about the Holocaust that he survived as a child. He wrote this novel for three main reasons. The first reason was because he felt he had a moral obligation to try to prevent the enemies’ crimes to be forgotten in history so that it would not and could not happen again. The second reason was that he wanted to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness of the Holocaust. The last of the three reasons is to write this novel was because he thought he needed to preserve a record of what he went through as a child. Although this book was originally written in a different language, it was shortened and then translated to English. This was translated by his wife because he felt his wife had a much better understanding of the English language, and he wanted the whole world to know what happened. The one thing that Wiesel feared was saying too much, instead of saying too little. Because of the horror and brutality of this preface, one can guess the nature of this first hand account of the Holocaust.

** Concentration Camps ** Concentration Camps Dark and Horrible Working, suffering, dying As dark as the night sky, and as deadly as a bullet to the head A living Hell for those inside Killing Without remorse

Crematorium

Never shall I forget Flames everywhere. The flames rising from a tall chimney into the night sky.

Poor devils, Heading for the crematorium. Their children thrown into the flames Human beings were being burned in our times.

The smell of burning flesh I was face-to-face with the angel of death He did not wish to see what they would do to me He did not wish to see his only son go up in flames

Two steps from the pit We were ordered to turn left And head into the barracks. Never shall I forget.

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