Wiesel compared his mother's face to a mask in order to depict how she was petrified that all of this was happening. Surprisingly his father was crying and yet his mother was the one showing barely any emotion. His mother knew what to expect, their horror has just begun and she is all ready changed. A mask is a covering for the face that one may use to hide or disease themselves. Wiesel’s mother was trying to be strong for her children, despite of the circumstances. When Wiesel and his father were separated from his mother and sister he had to put on a mask in order to be there for his father. He could tell that his father was becoming weaker and weaker day by day, Wiesel was the reason his father lasted so long in the camps. In the concentration camps it was like everyone wore a mask, without them there emotions would take over them and they would lose their sanctity. When people are put into situations like this they tend to use defence mechanisms in order to …show more content…
While reading it I felt like I was looking through his eyes, as if I was there with him in the camp. I felt really unsettled after reading this statement, no wonder why Wiesel lost his innocence because with it he would not have been able to survive. Wiesel did not have to go in detail about what he saw in the camps but because he did the novel resonated with me . Like Wiesel’s innocence was taken away from him he wanted to capture the terrible power that the concentration camps had over people. The way this quote is phrased shows how baffled Wiesel was when witnessing this horrid action. I am well aware that the Holocaust was a time period of torment but actually having to go through it, I can not even imagine. The whole point of the book is to take people back in time and make them live what Wiesel went through. This quote was an example of how at a young age Wiesel witnessed horrific things that changed him for the rest of his