Wiesel shows how the united states failed to act on behalf of the jews during world war 2 by

Showing the fate of the St. Louis

Explanation:

In his speech, Wiesel talks about the fate of the MS St. Louis. This was a ship that left Germany in 1939 with Jewish refugees on board. More than 900 Jewish passengers were on board, as they were trying to escape the Holocaust. The ship was denied permission to disembark in many countries, including the United States. The ship went back to Europe, and approximately a quarter of the passengers later died in death camps.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the answer to "what does the narrator realize by the end of the story" is b.