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Assignment number 1;The Preface of //Night//
Elie Wiesel's novel Night has been a famous success and it has a deep background meaning to it. Elie Wiesel remarks that if he were to only write one book in his whole lifetime he would most definitely have written Night. He wrote this book for three main reasons that had to do mostly with his life in the Holocaust. He thinks that having survived this horrid event he needed to give some meaning to the fact that he was able to make it through and survive. Elie also believes that without having written Night his life would not have become what it is. Lastly, he wrote Night convinced that this period in history would be judged one day, and he knew that he must be a bear witness. Writing this novel was not easy at all for Elie even though he lived through the events, but he had worries about his writing. While writing Night, language became an obstacle for Elie and it became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language. It was also hard for Elie to write his book without trembling and having a permanently broken heart for all eternity. And yet, having lived though the Holocaust, Elie could not keep silent no matter how difficult it was to speak. Elie's manuscript, written in Yiddish, was translated into F rench first, and then into English and was rejected by every single publisher, b​oth French and American. After months and months of personal visits, telephone calls, and letters he finally achieved at getting it into print. Although Elie made many cuts, the Yiddish version was still extremely long, but Jerome Lindon edited and further cut the French version. Elie only accepted Jerome's decision because he worried that some things might be superfluous.



ASSIGNMENT #2: Figurative Language Poem


Concentration Camps

 * Horrific and Degrading **
 * Screaming, Crying, Dying **
 * as scary as a clown to children and as unbelievable as a human flying **
 * a battle for life **
 * praying **
 * to hold onto your life**

ASSIGNMENT #3: Found Poem
~ Torture ~

difficulty breathing growing weaker I would give up **** tomorrow could be the worst yet, torture
 * Thirst became intolerable, as did heat

The devil at your heels, straight in front of you a long road paved with suffering keep your faith factories of death days went by, torture

Days became short, doomed from the start to sleep meant to die the rations had grown smaller that was the only change the end was near, torture **

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Elie Wiesel [|Auschwitz Image]