What does the phrase the renaissance man mean? This usually refers to a person who is highly accomplished in many of the basic human disciplines. He/she would be skilled in letters and in most areas of learning including s â¦ cience/math, history and philosophy.
He lied so he could stay together with his father and not be sent directly to the gas chambers. Note* his book mentions nothing of the Gas chambers....which is suspicious...90 â¦ % of people who passed through Auschwitz claim there were gassing chambers and that they did NOT burn people alive as Elie Wiesel claimed...e feels bad for the man that he hasn't seen his family in a very long time and therefore, Elie knows that if he tells stein the truth (his family is dead) that stein will kil â¦ l himself. Elie wants to keep stein alive.
Only 15 when his family was sent to a concentration camp, Elie Wiesel lost his mother, father and younger sister before he and other survivors were liberated in 1945. When the war was over, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and became a journalist. After he interviewed the French Nobel Prize winning writer Francois Mauriac, Mauraic convinced Elie Wiesel to write about his experiences in the Nazi death camps.