Ch. 5 and 6 stuff

Quote 1: "My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son had done" (Wiesel 97)


Analysis: Elie is praying to a god he no longer believes in, that he would never leave his father to better his chances at living longer. This shows how much animal in stinks are kicking in with the people and now they are forced to do almost ANYthing to survive. Elie wants to fight being an animal and be a human and love his father enough to not leave his father to die.




Quote 2: "He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings- his lost hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future" (Wiesel 100)


Analysis: As Juliek plays his last few songs he will ever play, he shows a bit of rebellion agents his cruel life. I think when the music played it gave some hope which everybody lacked. He died doing what he loved most which the Nazi did not want the Jews to do. They wanted them to suffer  and not enjoy anything.

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"Jews, look! Look through the window! Flames! Look!"(Wiesel 36).


 I think that she was trying to warn the Jews of the horrors to come. Madame Schächter yelling about the fire is foreshadowing how the jews will go to hell on earth.


"My father wept. It was the first time I had ever seen him weep"(Wiesel 28).


His father weeping is just an example of how during the Holocaust everything changed. It made people act and do things they never would have, like cry in front of their sons.