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Salvador Wiesel Monologue

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“ That night the soup tasted like corpses” (Section 4) During the time when Wiesel told the reader this, he had just witnessed a hanging of an Oberkapo son. I think that the boy getting hung was a really harsh punishment, due to the fact that he did not do anything wrong. While reading this quote I could not help but feel sorry for the boy. His life was taken due to his father's actions. To make it worse he did not die instantly, he died slowly and suffered because he was a child, therefore he was extremely light. Even though Wiesel did not die, I can't help feeling more sorry for him. I try to imagine something as agonizing but I can not. I think Wiesel wrote this quote to show how the rapid deaths finally got to him. Death was such a big part of his life at this time. …show more content…

That was all he knew. At first I wondered why Wiesel became so emotionally damaged by this hanging because several times before in the book there were hangings. I now realize why this one was so important. Yes, death everywhere caught up with him and yes the boy suffered, but that wasn't the main point. In the hangings before the people were guilty. For example when the man tried to steal soup during the raid, he was kilt because he did a wrong. That's why the soup tasted better than ever because he was not just stealing soup, he was taking the only thing the jews had to survive other than hope and their love ones, which were slowly disappearing. This little boy had committed no crime. He was simply a little boy who stuck with his father. This affected me a lot because it made me realize if I were there what would have happened to me. If they used little kids as target practice and hung them, what would they do to a teen? This quote contributes to the plot because it helps show the increase of death and the slow decrease of hope. It shows how easy it was to die, even more likely if you couldn't

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Being the last sentence of the book, and out of all the passages I highlighted this one stood out to me and described Wiesel’s experience in just a few simple sentence. He looked at himself for the first time in many years, and did not recognize himself he saw a different person. This showed me that the concentration camps changed him he was a different person inside and out. The events that occurred to him had scared him so much that the man he saw in the mirror wasn’t him, but one who had been drained of life that looked lifeless from the events occurred in the concentration camps. He was weak and this whole passage embodies his weakness and the whole point of the concentration camps.

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