Hope, Despair and Memory Themes
Suffering
You probably saw this one coming from a mile away.After all, what's being either remembered or forgotten in "Hope, Despair and Memory" is 100% grief and suffering. While the kind of suffering cause...
Memory and the Past
Memory's really at the heart of this one—shocker in a text called "Hope, Despair and Memory," we know. This is ultimately a speech about how memory is the key to solving mankind's problems, simpl...
Passivity
It's important if you remember…but it's only going to help if you actually do something about it. Elie Wiesel thinks that memory should stir people to act against injustice, instead of just tunin...