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Assignment Number One: The Preface of //Night//
Elie Wiesel Preface

Elie Wiesel had many reasons for publishing his autobiography //And The World Remained Silent//. He later wrote night, his abridged version because when the origonal was written he was an unknown writer and he did not know english well. The newer version was published to give meaning to his survival, bear witness for the dead, and because he could not keep silent no matter how difficult. He wrote for the people who did not know what happened during these dark times, and to help prevent history from repeating itself " (Wiesel vii). His greatest fear in writing this book was that he would not be able to tell the story and use words that people who had not been there would understand. Hitler and the Nazis ruthlessly killed and mistreated the Jews in their concentration camps. His publication of //Night// gives others around the world true insight of the horrific events that his people went through in these concentration camps.



Ellie Wiesel
child young and afraid praying, waiting, weeping like the cries of a baby as waiting like a child at the bus stop a defencless newborn living without any hope for tomorrow



Assignment Number Three: Found Poem
Nightmare Sunny spring day, trees were in bloom Our first oppressors, shining with greed Jews of Sighet were still smiling, could not be real The yellow star, not lethal a nightmare ruled by delusion The doors clanked shut, madness infected us all Auchwitz, burning flesh Flames rising from a tall chimney, there will be your grave Rations of bread, my only concern Small red flame consumed my faith I was covered in blood, clench your teeth and wait Without any hope, my head was buzzing Souls condemned, a race towards death The world all deserted us Magnificent blue into a black sky



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