Section 1
"People said... Hitler won't be able to do us any harm, even if he wants to... What methods could he use?" (Wiesel 18).
As Elie explains, the people of Sighet were very oblivious to their danger. They felt that Hitler couldn't hurt them, that because nothing had happened yet, nothing would. If they had listened to Moche and been more cautious they would have seen just how much danger they really were in. I believe that the idea of being wiped out terrified them so much they simply blocked it from their thoughts, as if that helped.
Section 2
"It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depths of her being" (Wiesel 34)
These words, more than any other in the story show exactly how disturbed Madame Schachter was behaving. The way she predicts the near future is interestingly similar to Elie's mother's premonition in the first chapter. They predict it so easily in part due to how obvious the Nazi movements were, but the Jewish people wanted it to be untrue so badly they were blinded to what was actually happening. It could be considered foreshadowing as it is a glimpse at what the evil of the Holocaust did to people.
2 comments:
you did a good job upon quoteing and commenting and i like the way that you brought the quote about the insane girl into the assignment but i believe it was slightly to long and the second quote could be confuseing to others but not me of course
- sincerly,
Tyler
I liked the quotes you used and that you were able to write alot about them and really dig deep. I also like how you added your opinion and used some literary elements like foreshadowing.
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