Question

In Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, he refers to himself in the third person. Which sentence best demonstrates this?
A. No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

B. For I belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people.

C. I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast.

D. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Answer 1

C. I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. 

This is the best option. It shows that Wiesel is talking about himself in the third person - the self that experienced the atrocities of the Holocaust. By doing this he is separating his current self from his younger self. He states that the memory "happened yesterday or eternities ago". This shows his closeness and detachment from what happened to him and thousands of others.

Answer 2

The answer is C. I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast.

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