The next question had to be, why go on? if memory continually brought us back to this, why build a home? why bring children into a world in which god and man betrayed their trust in one another? of course we could try to forget the past. why not? is it not natural for a human being to repress what causes him pain, what causes him shame? like the body, memory protects its wounds. when day breaks after a sleepless night, one's ghosts must withdraw; the dead are ordered back to their graves. but for the first time in history, we could not bury our dead. we bear their graves within ourselves. for us, forgetting was never an option.
which best describes how wiesel uses rhetorical questions in this excerpt?
1. to show the paradox between hope for the future and despair for the past
2. to equate memory to despair
3. to show the pointlessness of the violence of auschwitz
4. to demonstrate the seriousness of the struggle