Given wiesel's description of behavior of his fellow sighet residents, do you think wiesel views hope as a blessing or a curse?

Wiesel views hope in this case as a curse. In his description of the residents of Sighet, he only mentions all of the opportunities they have to escape the Nazis and their terror. However, the residents choose to hope that things will get better. Wiesel rarely puts himself in these sentences. He does use "we" when talking about the jews and what happened, but when speaking about the hope that the War would end before the Germans came or other such hopes, he doesn't include himself. Throughout his life, Wiesel has spoken about the destruction that silence can cause. He pleads for people to speak up and act rather than passively wait and hope that something will alter the course of events.