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Assignment # 1 - Preface of //Night //
Elie Wiesel, the author of the //And the World has Remained Silent // , has been through many hardships and a great deal of pain. Wiesel wrote this book for many reasons including that he wanted the world to understand what had happened to him and his people during the horrifying years of the Holocaust. Secondly, Wiesel wrote this book so that once people fully understand what happened, they can pass on that knowledge to later generations. He wrote it in hopes of something like the Holocaust never has to happen again. Lastly, Wiesel wrote this book because he wanted to create a record of what happened to him. He wanted to give a meaning to his survival. Wiesel worries that he will never be able to convince people how terrible Holocaust was. That a person had to experience it first hand to truly understand. He wrote //Night // because he felt his first book was too long and personal. Also //Night // was translated into more languages and more accurate.

Assignment #2: Using Figurative Language Through Poetry
 **Barbed Wire

Sharp and Deadly

Poking Scratching Wounding

Like the fences of hell and as evil as the devil himself**
 * A force unable to be broken**


 * Killing

No one escapes**

Assignment #3 Found Poem
 Divine Suffering

to enter eternity

where question and answer become one

deportees quickly forgotten- left for dead

the ghettos came

the barbed wire too

and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling

little by little life returned to "normal"

then one word:

roll call and crying

cattle cars and dying

An open tomb. A summer sun.

our eyes opened. too late.

flames in the darkness a wretched stench

work makes you free

Auschwitz

Resources
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