Although he failed to approach her initially, an encounter between her and a stalker caused our protagonist to intervene. On one of these nights, he spotted a young woman on a bridge. He thought of spring like a frail and sickly girl turned beautiful and he wondered, what power gave her strength and animation, and made her come alive and glitter? But our protagonist explained that this feeling is momentary, that after feeling this, you will go back into the same brooding mood, and will feel annoyed at having been carried away, but sad that you had no time to fall in love with the beautiful moment. Outside the city gate, as he walked through the fields and meadows, he was enraptured by the natural scenery and people he saw. For some evenings now, our protagonist has been walking about the city in a pensive and miserable mood, looking at familiar things, remembering people he 'knew', 'talking' to houses, or walking obliviously. It is spring, and many citizens of Petersburg have gone to their dacha with their families while our protagonist remains in his own home, where he tries to fix something that feels amiss. No adult content unless properly justified.įeel free to contact the moderation team should you have any questions.We maintain a fairly laissez-faire approach, but we do ask that users kindly obey the following set of ground rules: This was the darkest part of his life.This is a subreddit dedicated to the aggregation and discussion of articles and miscellaneous content regarding Fyodor M. Describe the tone of this memoir, and speculate on why Wiesel chooses to use this tone. A memoir is a story of one's life told by the person similar to an autobiography. Given the face that the title of this book in Night, what do you suppose a major theme in this work will be? Like a nightmare, in shock, darkest part of history, one never ending night. How does he use the sun? "under a blazing sun" "a summer sun" "the heat was oppressive" What does the imagery of night suggest? No more optimism, hope burned out dying. In this chapter Wiesel uses images from nature. They need something to keep them going, and didn't want to believe their lives were in danger. Despite all that happened, even after the Germans entered the capital of the Budapest, Wiesel tell us that people still remained optimistic about their future. Where did they go? Train station, cattle cars. What were those plans? To transport from the Ghettos to the small Ghetto then the cattle cars. The Germans had the other plans for the Jews of Sighet, however. How did the Jews react to this? They tried to go back to normal. What was the Germans' next step? They started putting Jews in Ghettos, Jews were concentrated then confined in the ghettos. However it singled out the Jews to be killed. What was bitterly ironic about the comments that Wiesel's father made regarding the wearing of the yellow star? He said that it wasn't lethal. What happened after passover? They started to take over and arrested Jewish leaders. After Passover, Wiesel says " the curtain rose."What does this refer to? The facade that the Germans had disappeared. After the Germans arrived in Sighet, what was the prevailing attitude among the residents? It was reassuring and calm. What literary device does Wiesel employ to emphasize the foolish optimism and denial of facts of the Jews living in Sighet? Irony. What was the attitude of the Jews of Sighet? Optimistic. They couldn't believe such horrible things could happen. Why did the villagers react the way they did to Moshe's story? They were to outraged and in denial. How did other people in the village react to Moshe's story? Other people in the village refused to believe or listen to Moshe.
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