Quote: " The bell. Already we must separate, go to bed. Everything was regulated by the bell. It gave me orders, and I automatically obeyed them. I hated it. Whenever I dreamed of a better world, I could only imagine a universe with no bells."(Wiesel 80).
Analysis: A lot of things command us in life. When we get up for school the alarm awakes us. When the bell rings at school it dismisses us. Elie was just like us, he did not like the idea of being a slave to everything. He did not like being a slave at all. The bell rang and he had to know what was to be done.
Quote: " I could here only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again."(Wiesel 100).
Analysis: The song that Juliek played, one of Beethoven's sorrowful melodies showed the life of an Innocent boy among Innocent people. The feelings he had at that very moment to have played such a song. Glazing over dead tortured bodies trampled over themselves, gave him such feelings.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Quote and Analysis From Night
Quote: " I did not move. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, before my very eyes, and I had not flickered an eyelid. I had looked and said nothing." (Wiesel 48).
Analysis: The fear that he experienced, wounded him like he would have been the one to get struck. The cruelty of the prisoners themselves toward other prisoners shows that they have forgotten who they are.
Quote: " I walked on with my father and the other men. And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever." (Wiesel 39).
Analysis: The pain Elie felt as he understood, the sorrow he had knowing that he was being separated from his comforter, his mother. I couldn't do without my mother she knows how to make the situation appear pleasant.
Analysis: The fear that he experienced, wounded him like he would have been the one to get struck. The cruelty of the prisoners themselves toward other prisoners shows that they have forgotten who they are.
Quote: " I walked on with my father and the other men. And I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever." (Wiesel 39).
Analysis: The pain Elie felt as he understood, the sorrow he had knowing that he was being separated from his comforter, his mother. I couldn't do without my mother she knows how to make the situation appear pleasant.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Quote Analysis
Quote: " Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! Its a furnace!" (Wiesel, 34).
Analysis: This is where the fifty year old woman yells at the people in the train foreshadowing the events that are going to take place at Auscgwitz.
Quote: " Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets." (Wiesel, 16)
Analysis: These events that are happening reveals the internal conflict that the author had when he heard the man's story. The cruelty that the Germans possessed was foreshadowed to be repaid, and dealt with in the end.
Analysis: This is where the fifty year old woman yells at the people in the train foreshadowing the events that are going to take place at Auscgwitz.
Quote: " Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets." (Wiesel, 16)
Analysis: These events that are happening reveals the internal conflict that the author had when he heard the man's story. The cruelty that the Germans possessed was foreshadowed to be repaid, and dealt with in the end.
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