Garden of Eden

In his memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recounts the horror of witnessing his own father physically disintegrate after they together have endured so many months of suffering in Nazi death camps. During the last days of his father's life in a death camp, Elie desperately tries to comfort his father by telling him that "this was not the end, that we would go back to the house together" (102). Elie tells his father that little white lie, …

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