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Assignment #1- The Preface of //Night//
Elie Wiesel wrote //Night,// which was originally called //And the World Remained Silent//, after the Holocaust. One reason he wrote //Night// was so he could understand the madness he indured in his youth in order to give meaning to his survivul. The author knew he had to bear witness to the Holocaust, as he knew he could not keep silent. It was also important for the author of //Night// to insure the world did not forget the six million Jews killed. He wanted the world to understand the horror and comprehend the slaughter of the Holocaust to prevent it from ever occuring again.

In Writing //Night,// the author worried that his language could not accurately "describe the last journey in sealed cattle cars, the last voyage to the unknown." Mr. Wiesel worried that others could not truly understand the horror of the Holocaust from the words in his book.

The new translation of //Night// was written because Mr. Wiesel was a beginning writer and his skills in English were poor at the time of the first translation. By writing his book, he hoped to accomplish the extinction of genocide such as the Holocaust.



Assignment #2- Night Poem
Crematories torrid, savage burning, killing, blazing like the sun on a viciously hot day, and as ferocious as a evil predator finding its prey right before they were thrown into this murderous inferno wondering where is the sanity, humanity to this madness

Freed of normal constraints They could watch the blooming countryside There was nothing, only the darkness of night The night had passed completely The morning star shone in the sky

I woke up Our eyes opened The conditions were good I was back in the room of my childhood, with my books I no longer felt the pain

We’re now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusion There stood a man, an SS man His machine gun trained on us Our terror could no longer be continued The child I was, had been consumed by the flames.



Resources
Elie Wiesel's Photo- [|Elie Wiesel] Crematory Photo- [|Crematory] Flames Photo-[|Flames]