Elie Wiesel Act Of Kindness Analysis

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Today, I will make a speech proving that depending on the situation and the act of kindness, the difference that it had an impact on maybe altered. At the start of section 3, an inmate helped Eliezer stayed with his father as he wished as a single act of kindness in the mid of the camp's cruelty. "The man interrogating me was an inmate. I could not see his face, but his voice was weary and warm." Eliezer, he was grateful that he could accompany his father. But my question is, does...or did he really wanted to receive that act of kindness? Eliezer once described in the book "'Mother is still a young woman'...'She must be in a labour camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a camp.' How we would have liked to believe that.

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