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The Watch By Elie Wiesel Summary

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“The Watch” is a short story composed by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, that tells the tale of him visiting his childhood home after escaping the concentration camps. The Holocaust was a devastating event that happened in the 1930’s and 40’s, which led to the murder of roughly six million Jews and seventeen million victims overall. Elie was forcibly taken to one of the deadly concentration camps they had set up throughout Germany and after one long year, he was released and he returned to his hometown in Romania. After returning, he dug up a watch he had left behind that his parents had given to him before the Holocaust; but after the excitement of finding the only gift ever given to Elie, he begins to feel guilty, like a thief, and puts the watch back into the box and buries it once again. …show more content…

Elie Wiesel’s purpose of his decision to leave behind his watch is to continue the learning and not overlook the horrific reality he went through. When Elie goes to retrieve the watch, he is overwhelmed with joy and excitement. He walks to the exact spot, three steps to the right, stop, two forward. In the palm of his hand, “... the last relic, the only remaining symbol of everything I had loved, of everything I had been” (Wiesel). Elie is awestruck by the finding of the watch his parents gave him long ago. He holds it gently, but protectively in his hands for it is the only thing he has left of his family and life before the matter. Elie begins to remember his childhood and what his life was like prior to the Holocaust. As the

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