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Assignment Number 1 Preface of //Night//


Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel, the author of //Night//, has had a life full of hardship and pain. Wiesel’s year in a concentration camp in Hitler’s Germany contributed to his reasons for writing //And the World has Remained Silent// and //Night//. Wiesel is not sure of his reasoning but he believes that maybe it is to understand the madness Hitler felt, or possibly to prevent history from repeating itself, or maybe even to preserve his thoughts and feelings of his adolescent self. Wiesel believes that because he has written this book he prevents one last Nazi victory which would allow their crimes to be erased from memory. He has many fears that his book can not prevent the last Nazi victory or that he will not be able to express the fear and horrific events at Auschwitz to everyday people. He fears that one would have had to be there to experience the horror he has spent most of his life trying to convey. He rewrote //And the World has Remained Silent// for one simple reason, when he first wrote it he was an unknown writer who was just starting off. However François Mauriac, the man responsible for getting Wiesel’s book published, believed that this young Holocaust survivor had an important message the whole world should hear. Despite Wiesel’s fear and difficulty in expressing his feelings he feels that his book will have a destiny to touch the lives of everyday people.

Assignment Number 2: Using Figurative Language Through Poetry


Yellow Star
Yellow Star Bright and deadly Calling, attracting, and, signaling As deadly as poison and like a blaring siren A flare for all Jews Shinning With everyone’s attention for the world to see



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Forever
Beloved objects Farther and farther away I was still alive Thrown into the flames Forever

Infernal heat was rising The world Slow death Prayer for the dead Forever

Prisoners One single night Never shall I forget The world kept silent Forever



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[|Elie Wiesel Image] [|Spell with Flickr] [|Star of David] [|Family with Yellow Star] [|Crematorium]