Chattahoochee River
Friday, February 6, 2015
Chapter 8/9
The last sentence of the book really struck me, because it was such an upbrupt way that Wiesel decided to end the book. I feel that all the last appearances of all the characters are extremely abrupt, like the death of Wiesel's father, the last time he sees his mother and sister, and all the other deaths of people he experiences within the concentration camps. So I think that all though it is and unsatisfying ending, it was fitting to end all of his character stories in an abrupt way. The way that he describes his physical features after the concentration camp shows just how different and hurt he has come. He is essential rising from "death" at the end of the book to describe how he is going to carry on for the rest of his life. He left a huge piece of him inside the walls if those various concentration camps .
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I agree that the way Wiesel ended the book and the stories of different characters was very abrupt and even a bit disappointing. I think this may be because it's such a painful topic for him to talk about, the loss of his loved ones and of bits of himself. I think it may be easier for him to just mention what happens without going into a lot of detail because doing that would require him to revisit that dark time in his past when he would rather try to just move passed it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the abruptness of the end caught me by surprise. A part of him did die in the camp but another part of him had to keep on living. His views on life and death must have drastically changed after witnessing so much death.
ReplyDeleteHe seemed to not be able to recognize the cold, apathetic corpse he became as he looked at himself in the mirror for the first time in a while. The last time he had done so, he hadn't endured nearly as much. This time he knew what he had just gotten himself out of, and the last few chapters ended so fast because that might've been how he saw/felt about those particular events. It was almost like he anticipated for the end so much for so long that when it really happened, it just...kind of happened, it was over with, and now he doesn't know what to make of himself with part of himself from the camp dead.
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