1. “Hope Despair and Memory” Elie Wiesel
Groups Members’ Names: Shawn, Elisabeth, Kennedy, Mattie

2. Elie Wiesel 3. He wrote the world’s best book called the night.
Wiesel led a life representative of many Jewish children.
2. Wiesel's job as chairman of the President's Commission on the Holocaust was the planning of an American memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
3. He wrote the world’s best book called the night.

3. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
When was this text written? December
Why was it written? International Year of Peace
What was going on in history when this text was written?

4. Summary
The basic summary of “Hope to despair and Memory” by Elie Wiesel, its about how god is the only one who really know and how they started to believe that there was a place under for the bad and for the good. They talked about how no one would be able to live daily life if you don’t forgive and forget others, there is a huge important of friendship and mans ability. They spoke about how you really need to have an understanding about things and the fact about that you may never know, you should always live every minute well and have forgiveness and hope about everything you do.

5. RELEVANCE
The story of “ Hope, Despair and Memory is still important to this day being he came up with the conclusion that there is a place for the good and for bad and that you should live every moment as if it was you last and that you can never go on with your day without having forgiveness in people.

6. LITERARY DEVICES
“Children look like old men, old men whimpered like children”- Simile
“ Memory saved the Besht, and if anything can is memory”- Personification
“None of us is a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in its hideousness.” -Hyperbole