Writing About Fiction
Borowski's "Silence" and Wiesel's "The Watch" are stories about the Holocaust. Both short stories are great work of fiction that give the reader a clear image and idea of what the Jews' experienced. During the Holocaust, both short stories experienced great lost and great pain. Therefore, the characters in the stories developed feelings of hatred and vengeance. Nevertheless, the vengeance in both short stories were different.Borowski's "Silence" and Wiesel's "The Watch" great lost. The narrator in "The Watch" lost all his childhood years. He didn't know how much fun a boy felt when he played at his house's backyard with his sister. He did not know how wonderful a boy felt when grew next to his family and sister. When I read the story, I imagine the narrator at the concentration camp laying on a cold bed with no bed sheets and crying all night. In my imagination the narrator was crying because he remembered all the warm nights he had next to his family. Now twenty years later he is standing where his family and happiness was taken away, his home. N
In "The Watch" the narrator's vengeance was delayed. When the narrator came back twenty years later to hi home town, he wanted vengeance like any Jew that lived through the Holocaust. Nevertheless, his vengeance was nothing compare to the vengeance from "Silence". Instead of killing the people that were leaving in his old house, the narrator didn't do anything to them. All the narrator did was to unburied his childhood watch, which was buried in his old home. Furthermore, the narrator thought for a moment that the best vengeance was to re-buried the watch. He wanted his vengeance to fall on top of the usurpers' children. He wanted the children to learned of the time were the Jews and Jewish children were robbed of their childhood and future. In my opinion, the watch may have created fear within the character. A fear to remember the past or re-living the past. The characters vengeance in "Silence" was spontaneous. Many Jews as we know were killed at the concentration camps for no reason. Other Jews were hurt for many years physically and mentally during the Holocaust. Therefo
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