Literary Check #3

1.
a. Character thesis:

Many times we see life as difficult and unbareing but for survivor Elie Wiesel, he teaches us that with positivity and the right mindset, hope arises even in the midst of trials.

b. Theme thesis:

Quite often we take advantage of the freedom we have in our own lives that we forget to appreciate the simplicity and essence of it, not realizing the true value. 

2. Eliezer

"Then I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip. "One...two......." he counted. He took his time between each stroke. Only the first ones really hurt me."

"We walked over pain-racked bodies. We throw on wounded faces. No cries. A few groans."

"We were no longer marching; we were running. Like automatons. The SS were running, too. Their weapons in their hands. We looked as though as were fleeing before them. Pitch darkness. Every now and then, an explosion in the night. They had orders to fire on any who could not keep up."

"The commandant announced that we had already covered forty two miles since we left."

"Comrades, you're in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. There's a long road of suffering ahead of you."

Choice of life 

"Remember it forever. Engrave it in your minds. You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It's a concentration camp. Here, you have got to work. If not, you will go straight to the furnace. To the crematory. Work or the crematory - the choice is in your hands"

""All Jews outside!" We were ready. I was the first to leave. I did not want to see my parents faces. I did not want to break into tears."

"I saw them disappear into the distance; my mother was stroking my sisters fair hair, as though to protect her, while I walked on with my father and other men. And I did not know that I'm that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever."

"From this moment, you come under the authority of the German Army"