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Assignment 1: Preface of //Night//
Why Wiesel Wrote //Night//  The preface in Elie Wiesel’s shocking non-fiction book //Night// explains why he originally wrote the book //And the World Remained silent,// an unabridged version of night, what he was worried about, and why he wrote the abridged version of //And the World Remained silent// called //Night.// He originally wrote //And the World Remained silent// for three different reasons. The first was to go mad, or in his words, “Not to go mad, or, on the contrary to go mad,” (Weisel 7) so he could understand madness and what would compel someone to start the holocaust. Another was so he could leave behind memories so that the Holocaust could not, would not, be denied or repeated. The last of the reason of the three was to, “Preserve a record of the ordeal I experienced as an adolescent,” (Weisel 7) when one’s knowledge of life, death, and evil should have a limit. While that alone would have made an adequate preface, he continues on about how although he had many things to say, language was a barrier for him. He could not describe “it”. The dictionary did not help it only offered words that were, “Meager pale, lifeless,” (Weisel 9) and that people would not understand the atrocities that happened. Along with those two parts, why he abridged //And the World Remained silent// into //Night// to make it more readable make up the preface. He was worried he had said too much not too little because if he had said too much it would not impact as much. He thought Quality over Quantity, “Substance alone mattered” (Weisel 10). It has often been said that when people hear 100,000 people just died they say, “oh, how sad.” When they hear, “Our little girl named Anna died today. Please help she was only six and blonde haired.” They spring into action and help, because a lot is just a number, one is personal. Those things make the preface of this book very haunting possibly hinting what the rest of the book will be like.

A ssignment 2: Figurative Language Poem
Crematorium

Crematorium Smelly and creepy Moaning, Screaming, and Flaming As hot as hell and screams like animals back from the grave The tomb of those who did not pass selection Burning The bodies of the weak

assignment 3- Found Poem
Betrayed

Your Majesty Words of gratitude For helping human kind make peace For declaring survival has meaning for man kind

I doubted Your existence In the Kingdom of Night Betrayed voices stifled Their smoke rising form the chimneys Their screams piercing yet unheard

No one may speak for the dead Still the victims are not alone Our freedom depends on theirs

Violence is not the answer Too much blood shed Blessed be Thou For giving us life and enabling us to reach this day



Resources:
[|Elie Wiesel image] [|The Majdanek Crematorium.JPG][|genocide]