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Watch Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout the story, the watch symbolizes the survivors of the Holocaust. The watch survived through the Holocaust, and even though it was changed juristically, it still survived. Wiesel humanizes the watch by relating it to “a sick friend returning from far away” (Wiesel). Once Wiesel sees the watch, he becomes filled “with the disgust one feels for a love betrayed” (Wiesel). By humanizing the watch, Wiesel helps use the watch as a symbol for the survivors of the Holocaust. The valuables hidden by his other family members were stolen, yet the watch was left exactly where Wiesel hid it. Like the treasures his family buried, many of the Jews’ lives were stolen during the Holocaust. The watch remained hidden even after all the other valuables

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