Question

He continued to moan: "Don’t yell, my son...Have pity on your old father...Let me rest here...a little...I beg of you, I’m so tired...no more strength..." He had become childlike: weak, frightened, ______ .

Answer 1

Answer:

Vulnerable

Explanation:

In describing his struggle with his father, who was now very sick and oblivious of his environment, Elie Wiesel described his father as weak, frightened, and vulnerable. The book, 'Night,' was written in 1960 by Elie Wiesel to describe his travails with his father at the German concentration camp between 1944 to 1945. The conditions at the camp were so harsh that people had to struggle for their lives first before considering their loved ones.

Wiesel experienced this when he fled for life at the sound of sirens, abandoning his sick father. This is aptly summarized in the following words;

"WHEN I WOKE UP, it was daylight. That is when I remembered that I had a father. During the alert, I had followed the mob, not taking care of him. I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him."