Answer: D. It helps readers understand what the meaning is behind different types of figurative language.
Explanation: Each time you paraphrase something, you are repeating a thought, image, idea, etc., but expressed in a new way; this piece of "new information" about the same topic helps readers figure out the meaning behind other parts of the poem that would otherwise seem more obscure to them.
Throughout the horrors of his captivity, Wiesel states that he needed to be strong for his father. He needed to survive for his father. After his father's death, he no longer feels as though he has anything to live for. It can be assumed that he no longer paid attention to the world around him. His lack of detail about that is due to the fact that he no longer cared about what was going on.
