I Know Your Choice Transcend My Person Elie Wiesel Analysis

When Wiesel says, "I know your choice transcends my person," he means that he is grateful for being chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize. Also, Wiesel indicates that he is thankful that the committee surpassed himself and recognized people who sacrificed from the Holocaust. Wiesel refers himself in the first person and the third person during paragraphs four through six to help the reader better understand his piece. With the use of two different narratives, Wiesel gives the reader a better understanding and it also creates an image in the reader's head of what has happened from his point of view. When Wiesel says, “if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” he means that if people ignore that something could occur once more, people are