The Gates of the Forest (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Elie Wiesel
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s and early 1950’s
- Setting: Hungarian forests and villages, Paris, and Brooklyn
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Mistaken or secret identity, 1940’s, Villages, Paris, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Nazism or Nazis, Martyrs or martyrdom, Holocaust, Jewish, Persecution, Hungary or Hungarians
- Locales: Paris, France, Brooklyn, NY, Hungary
Characters Discussed
Gregor, whose real name is Gavriel. He is an orphaned seventeen-year- old Hungarian Jew who successfully escaped the Nazis during World War II. Clever and resourceful, and entirely committed to the underground partisan movement in Hungary, Gregor is both a loyal friend and someone who elicits intense love and loyalty in others. He is introspective and philosophical, a young man who has learned to love solitude and night, and not to live “outside his body.” As a result, he develops great resourcefulness in his quest for survival. In each of the four...
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