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The young Jewish boy in the text symbolizes the author's young life. Wiesel might have chosen to convey his point through symbolism because it might be more effective to go through to people compared to not using his own experiences

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trauma = base word of a word family, includes traumatize, traumatic, and traumatically. 

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trauma = base word of a word family, includes traumatize, traumatic, and traumatically. 

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- captive, captivity, captives
- humility, humiliation, humiliate
- injure, injurious, and injurer

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"And I tell him that I have tried," (Wiesel, para 7).
Significance:
The significance of Wiesel's use of past present tense is that he is showing that in the past he has tried as well as continues to try.

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To inform others that they need to speak up about injustices instead of remaining silent.
Evidence:
"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented," (Wiesel, para 8).

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all of paragraph 8 is important it's important because it discusses the importance and speaking out and taking firm sides.

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This speech taught me that we can learn about the past and remember it better when we have things to learn it from connecting back to paragraph 8, That people should speak out so we can have things and people to learn from

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HE hopes that by speaking out he can inspire other individuals to speak out as well.
Evidence:
"one person of integrity-can make a difference, a difference of life and death," (Wiesel, para 12)

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Although Wiesel is Jewish, he believes that all injustices must be stopped so he vowed to speak out on all of them.
Evidence:
"to make Jewish priorities my own... But there are others as important to me," (Wiesel, para 9).

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"that I have tried to keep memory alive," (Wiesel, para 7).
Significance:
The significance of Wiesel's use of past present tense is that he is continuing to try and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive as he did in the past to prevent further human injustices.

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"that I have tried to fight those who would forget," (Wiesel,
Significance:
The significance of Wiesel's use of past present tense is that he is and has been actively speaking out to other so that they won't forget and this event does not repeat itself again.

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I have been playing softball for several years and I have tried to better myself everyday. I continue to work on fundamentals and other skills. Additionally, I have  tried to proceed to enjoy the sport. My efforts so far have been successful; till this day I still love to play the sport. In the future I hope to become the best softball player ever.

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In paragraph 7, Wiesel claims, “Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.” What do you think he means by this statement?
What he means by this statement is that if people remain silent and forget the problems then they continue to happen and since we did not help solve the problems we are now accomplices as well as guilty.

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What does this statement reveal about his point of view?
What this statement reveals about Wiesel's point of view is that he believes that people should speak out about injustices so they can be prevented in the future.

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What is Wiesel’s point of view, or perspective, on the individual’s responsibility to end human suffering? Identify a quotation from the text that supports your response.
His point of view on individual's responsibility to end human suffering is to speak up. For example in the text it reads, "Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented," (Wiesel, para 8).

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Review paragraphs 9–11 of the speech. How does Wiesel acknowledge and respond to other viewpoints on contemporary political conflicts?
Wiesel acknowledges and responds to other viewpoints on contemporary political conflicts by his numerable references to other people of all races, religions, and situations who have also suffered persecution and suffering.

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Review paragraphs 9–11 of the speech. What aspects of his unique point of view does he use to distinguish, or differentiate, his viewpoint from others?
The aspects of his unique point of view that he uses to distinguish, or differentiate, his viewpoint from others is that he states that he fights for not only his own religion and background but all others. Unlike others he does not fight to remember one injustice but all so that none may ever occur again.

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Paragraph 8 is important because it talks about the importance of speaking out and taking sides which is still important to this day in order for us to remember the past. Another important paragraph is paragraph 11 where he talks about taking action and having faith.

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The three words, humiliation, persecution, and traumatized are all related because they are words that involve severe either emotional or physical pain.

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I could tell that my friend went through humiliation when she messed up her public speech.
The Jewish people went trough verbal and physical persecution during the time of the holocaust.
Many of the Jewish people if they survived or not were traumatized by the actions of the Nazis.