Read these sentences from "Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize." 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. . . . I remember: He asked his father, "Can this be true?" . . . And now the boy is turning to me. . . . Who is the "young Jewish boy"? answer options Wiesel's childhood friend Wiesel, when he was a child himself a boy in the audience of his acceptance speech a boy who knows Wiesel personally as an adult
Eliezer Wiesel won the Nobel Peace prize for his memoir <em>Night</em> that details his horrific experience as a Jew in the concentration camps. In one of the most horrific crimes of the history of the world, Wiesel provided a first hand account of the Holocaust and the plight of the Jews during Nazi Germany's genocide.
In his acceptance speech, Wiesel used the third person to talk about himself. At times, he also used the first person voice but one in particular stood out. It was when he talked about a<em> "young Jewish boy [who] discovered the kingdom of night." </em>This boy he was talking about refers to his own young self, but in a way generalizing himself to all the Jewish boys suffering too. By putting himself out there as an identity detached from the man giving the speech, Wiesel makes himself be the representation of what the Jews had endured.
