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Karl's Motivation For Simon In Night By Elie Wiesel

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I believe Karl's primary motivation for confessing to Simon was that for Karl's own sake, and peace of mind, he wanted to see a "Jew", any Jew, so that he could die in peace. Karl is unable to see the suffering of others due to fact he is blinded by his own suffering, he is unable to see the suffering of the Jewish people he participated in murdering and the ones that still haunt him. He confessed because he wanted to be at peace with himself, I see that as his prime motivation for telling Simon what he did. I interpreted Simon's silence as he was having an internal moral struggle with himself, unsure of whether or not his silence was right or wrong since the Nazi whose bedside he was at was dying. I don't think Simon had the authority to
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