Night Persuasive Letter

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Dear Mr, Elie Wiesel. My English recently finished your book "Night", one of the few survivor stories of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the epitome of genocide, which always begins with an idea and like a wildfire, it grows. I've had a chance to observe this mentality amongst others. Discrimination among differences still exists. Sadly, many leaders of today still decide to coexist within their hearts the same evil that gave birth to unimaginable. We cannot even begin to comprehend that, the same ideology that brought upon the demise of many Jewish peoples could even pass through our minds, yet even now we still separate each other. However, if we learn from our past mistakes then hopefully history will not get a chance to revive itself.

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