It is unbelievable how fast people adapt. It hurts to admit it, but within hours of first
breathing the cattle car's nauseating air, we
began to feel at home. “Home” was the edge
of the wooden plank I sat on as I dreamed of
the Jewish exiles of antiquity and the Middle
Ages. More curious than afraid, I thought of
myself as their brother. Mixed into my
sadness there was undeniable excitement, for
we were living a historic event, a historic
adventure.
- All Rivers Run to the Sea, Elie Wiesel
Recall that Wiesel was a teenager when he was
deported to Auschwitz. How does that point of
view add to the power of this passage?
It helps express the horrors of the
concentration camps.
It gives objective explanations of a
teenager's response to the Holocaust.
It shows that Wiesel was too young to
comprehend what was happening at the time.
It shows that teenagers will relate events to
things they learned in school.
DONE