The Watch

Written By: Elie Wiesel

How does one find peace after tragedy?

In the short story “The Watch” I believe that the protagonist over came tragedy and found peace. I think that he found peace when he re-burried that watch, after everything that happened to him while he was in the concentration camps. While he was going through everything in the concentration camps he was thinking about the watch. In my opinion that even though he said “I have committed my first theft” (pg. 223)  he still went back and re-buried the watch to fins peace so he wouldn’t have to go back and think about all of the awful memories.