Question

Read the description below and answer the question. Charlie is writing an essay about the various populations hunted by the Nazis, such as Jews, gypsies, people with cognitive disabilities, and other individuals found lacking in the qualities deemed by the Nazis to create the perfect race. For part of his oral presentation of his essay, Charlie plans to randomly divide his audience into artificial groups of substandard individuals that will be sent to concentration camps. To better prepare his audience for this recreation, Charlie wants to incorporate ideas from Wiesel’s essay. Which part of Elie Wiesel’s essay expresses an idea that would most likely offer comfort to the various prison groups? Click here to reference the full text. in paragraph 3, the importance of memory in recalling what can be rather than what is in paragraph 4, the decision to dream in spite of obstacles that seem overwhelming in paragraphs 6 and 7, the need to move beyond a meaningless past and focus on the present in paragraph 8, the understanding that all that they thought they knew had changed

Answer 1

Paragraph 3, the importance of memory in recalling what can be rather than what is.

Why:

Wiesel's number one intention with his book is to let the people in the world know the atrocities that took place in those concentration camps. This is a man's call to humanity to not make this mistake ever again.

He intends to achieve this by exposing detailed acts of cruelty carried out by Nazi soldiers in their concentration camps. He is as well exposing the human being's intolerance and inhumanity towards another human being. This is accomplished when Eli describes awfully himself as "a stomach" because of his severe hunger and deprivation.