Read this excerpt from elie wiesel's nobel peace prize acceptance speech: of course, since i am a jew profoundly rooted in my peoples' memory and tradition, my first response is to jewish fears, jewish needs, jewish crises. for i belong to a traumatized generation, one that experienced the abandonment and solitude of our people. it would be unnatural for me not to make jewish priorities my own: israel, soviet jewry, jews in arab lands . . but there are others as important to me. apartheid is, in my view, as abhorrent as anti-semitism. to me, andrei sakharov's isolation is as much of a disgrace as josef biegun's imprisonment. as is the denial of solidarity and its leader lech walesa's right to dissent. and nelson mandela's interminable imprisonment. why does wiesel present this personal information first? a. to demonstrate that he can be a fun speaker. b. to demonstrate that he is intelligent. c. to demonstrate that he likes other people. d. to demonstrate that he can relate to being oppressed.  the answer is d for future students 

 D. To demonstrate that he can relate to being oppressed

Explanation: In this excerpt from Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, he presents his personal information first to demonstrate that he can relate to being oppressed. Wiesel presents his personal information first because as a survivor of the Holocaust he wants to tell people that neutrality favours the oppressor and silence encourages the tormentor. So he took side for all the people that suffer oppression around the world.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).

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