"Hope, Despair, and Memory" Interpretation Questions Directions: Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be thorough.
Explain your thoughts. Relate what Elie Weisel is saying to today. Is what he says
relevant in life today?
• "And the importance of friendship to man's ability to transcend his
condition." (Paragraph 3)
1. What is mankind's condition? How does friendship help
transcend this condition?

Answer and Explanation:

1. In "Hope, Despair, and Memory" Weisel states that the present, today, is the time where the past is absent, but it is necessary to keep a memory of the things that happened, as they are what guarantee the future. At the moment, Weisel is referring to the importance of maintaining the memory of the horrors of WW2, especially in relation to the Jews, so that in the future, horrors like this are not relived. This shows us that Weisel's words are very relevant today, especially in the present full of intolerance and prejudice in which we live. It is necessary to remember how intolerance was inhuman and harmful

2. The condition of humanity, which Weisel refers to is limitation. Limiting the future and life itself, but friendship can help to overcome these limitations by encouraging, motivating and establishing a more peaceful experience and offering company, allowing the human being to move forward, even in the face of his problems.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.