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Weisel uses the literary device of Imagery to achieve the purpose of showing how horrible the holocaust was.  For example when he describes the smell of burning flesh, it achieves his purpose.

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An"You'll see, you'll find your husband and sons again…In a few days”(Weisel 25). This is an example of empathy as a social action. Even though this woman is crazy they are trying to understand how she feels and make her feel better. 

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An"You'll see, you'll find your husband and sons again…In a few days”(Weisel 25). This is an example of empathy as a social action. Even though this woman is crazy they are trying to understand how she feels and make her feel better. 

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-Jason Cowan

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When the Jews are arriving at the concentration camp they are told they won't be separated from their families. This gave them an instant boost in confidence and optimism, despite the fact that they could smell burning flesh, and had been threatened with death several times .  That is an example of EQ #2. 

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When the Jews are arriving at the concentration camp they are told they won't be separated from their families. This gave them an instant boost in confidence and optimism, despite the fact that they could smell burning flesh, and had been threatened with death several times .  That is an example of EQ #2. 

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-Jason Cowan

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Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind"(Weisel 24).  The first ramification of the prejudice directed towards jews is that a woman has gone insane. 

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Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind"(Weisel 24).  The first ramification of the prejudice directed towards jews is that a woman has gone insane. 

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“Mrs. Schächter had fallen silent on her own. Mute again, indifferent, absent, she had returned to her corner” (Wiesel 28). One of the ramifications of prejudice, racism and apathy is they can drive people to mental illness and despair. Wiesel uses Mrs. Schächter to illustrate this point. She has been pushed past the point of reason by the behavior of the Nazis. First, going insane and then she goes mute and completely gives up. She has no hope left.

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“The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields” (Wiesel 27). To have hope and perseverance in the face of dehumanization and oppression, humans must grab onto any possible good news. The Jews on the train feel confident when they hear Auschwitz is not as bad as they feared. Their confidence soars even though they have been treated horribly on the train, the Beadle has told them that Nazis kill Jews and there is little reason for their hope. Even so, to persevere they must have at least some hope regardless of how ill-founded it is.

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“We decided to take turns sitting” (Wiesel 23). While packed into a railway cattle car, the Jews of Sighet still felt empathy towards each other. This empathy causes them to take social action by taking turns sitting. Mass social action starts with small gestures such as sitting at a lunch counter, as African Americans did in the South during the Civil Rights movement. Those gestures grew into massive marches and finally to legislation to provide equal rights to African Americans.

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"Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…" (Wiesel 26).  Wiesel uses Mrs. Schächter to foreshadow the doom of the Jews. After being separated from two of her three sons and husband, she goes crazy and starts to hallucinate seeing fires. The fires foreshadow the fact that the Jews were gassed and then cremated into ashes. When she says there are “Flames everywhere…” it suggests that every Jew in Europe is in danger not just the ones on the train and that there is no escape since the flames are surrounding them.

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"Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family" (Wiesel 24) one of the ramifications of prejudice and racism is the dehumanization against an "other" causing the systems put in place to harm the "other" to not care weather or not such things like family separation happen to said "other"  

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"Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family" (Wiesel 24) one of the ramifications of prejudice and racism is the dehumanization against an "other" causing the systems put in place to harm the "other" to not care weather or not such things like family separation happen to said "other"  

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"There was a labor camp on the site.The conditions were good. Families would not be separated.Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields.Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God"(Wiesel 27) This implies the willingness to take the small victory of not being dead and the conditions not being terrible over anything else and that these small glimmers of a possible set of conditions leads to hope and perseverance 

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"There was a labor camp on the site.The conditions were good. Families would not be separated.Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields.Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God"(Wiesel 27) This implies the willingness to take the small victory of not being dead and the conditions not being terrible over anything else and that these small glimmers of a possible set of conditions leads to hope and perseverance 

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"We decided to take turns sitting" This shows a clear recognition of the recognition of exhaustion of others and the willingness to do something about it also known as: Empathy being the seed of social action because when people empathize they might do stuff about the bad situation

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"We decided to take turns sitting" This shows a clear recognition of the recognition of exhaustion of others and the willingness to do something about it also known as: Empathy being the seed of social action because when people empathize they might do stuff about the bad situation

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Wiesel uses Moishe the Beadle too foreshadow the horrible atrocities that will happen while also showing us the effects from the atrocities. 

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Wiesel uses Moishe the Beadle too foreshadow the horrible atrocities that will happen while also showing us the effects from the atrocities. 

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"Her husband and two older sons had been deported
with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally
shattered her" (Wiesel 24). One of the ramifications of prejudice and racism is that people suffer through the effects of dehumanization. The Germans took away the ability from Ms. Schachter of being with her family, which lead to her going crazy, since family togetherness is such an important part of human psychology.

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“The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields. Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror" (Wiesel 27). Although the Jews learn that they will be forced to work in a labor camp, they put their hope and optimism first. Rather than look at the fact that they are being oppressed, they choose to rejoice because they will not be separated from their families, and overlook the negative in the picture.

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"Freed of normal constraints, some of the young let go of their
inhibitions and, under cover of darkness, caressed one another,
without any thought of others" (Wiesel 23). The young kids choose to empathize with one another and caress each other, not caring what anyone else thought. They didn't care about being self conscious, since they were all going through the same struggles.

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“Standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat” (Wiesel 25). Wiesel describes the scene where Ms. Schachter had woken up and screamed about the fires she’s seeing. He uses a simile to convey imagery, by comparing Ms. Schachter to a withered tree, relating the imagery to the fires she is describing.

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“Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical” (Wiesel 24). One of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and apathy is dehumanization and the denial of some basic human rights.  Mrs. Schachter had been separated from her family and thrown into a cattle train.  It is within one’s basic rights to not be separated from family, and when many are separated and thrown into cattle trains like animals, they are being dehumanized.  In this scene they are treated like animals who do not have emotions or complex thoughts and, in their eyes,  deserve no better than a herd of cattle.

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“The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields. Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God” (Wiesel 27). This is an example of choosing hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and oppression.  Even though they had been beaten, starved, moved, and treated like animals, they still held out hope that they would be alright.  Though this may have been false hope, it provided some happiness.  By choosing hope, they took and appreciated the best of a desolate situation.

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“Lying down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. We decided to take turns sitting” (Wiesel 23). This is an example of how empathy can be a seed of social action.  Though it is a small action, the people in the care showed empathy.  They recognized that others would want to sit, and took action, and all cooperatively took turns sitting.

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“It was Mrs. Schächter. Standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat. She was howling, pointing through the window: ‘Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me!’” (Wiesel 25). In this quote, Wiesel uses similes and imagery to convey the idea that within the cattle train, there was only hopelessness.  Even though they knew the terrible oppression they were being submitted to, there was only hopelessness.

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The quote "There was a labor camp on the site. T h e conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories.Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God"(Weisel 27), is a clear example of hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and oppression. These innocent people have been horribly beaten, violated, and murdered, while still having hope and optimism of survival. These victims are looking for light in these dark situations and refuse to view the negative.

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The author effectively uses literary devices to achieve a purpose, by using very emotion effective and detailed words to paint a descriptive image of the horrid events these victims were going through, in multiple parts of the book.

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The Jews were able to stay hopeful given their circumstance because they were optimistic and focused on the "good" sides of the situation. Some people claimed, "They just want to steal our valuables and jewelry...so much easier to do when the owners are on vacation" (Wiesel 21). Many created false scenarios as shown here to give themselves hope that their future did not consist of danger. This false sense of hope is how they were able to stay optimistic given their situation.

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¨She kept asking why she had
been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical¨(Wiesel 24).The Jews were being lied to and would be used because they were not told of what they would be doing and where they would be taken. They would try to figure out themselves, what reason or motive they had against them. They were seen as vulnerable, objects, and people who didn't deserve to live life normally and be happy.

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"Her husband and two older sons had been deported
with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally
shattered her." (Wiesel 24) A ramification of prejudice is the separation of family and the mental toll that separation has on someone. After that, the environment she was placed in after all of that with only her son caused her to hallucinate.

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In chapter one, Wiesel uses Moishe as a way to foreshadow the danger that lied ahead for the Jews.

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"There was a labor camp on the site.The conditions were good. Families would not be separated.Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields." (Wiesel 27) To choose to be optimistic in the face of oppression, you must find the potential of good in the situation even if it is unlikely that this opportunity for happiness is unlikely

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"Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!"(Wiesel 24). The author purposely uses literary devises to achieve a purpose by using imagery and symbols to describe the horror that they saw in felt on their trip to the concentration camps. Elie said it was like a wake up call for those who still believed that they were being taken to live a better life.

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"My sisters and I were still allowed to move about, as we were destined for the last convoy, and so we helped as best we could." (Wiesel 16) Elie and his sister felt empathy for the people who were forced to stay in the hot sun. With their freedom to move around as they pleased, they decided to fetch water for as many people as they possibly could.

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Elie uses Moishe the Beetle to foreshadow the oppression that the Jewish community would experience in the near future.

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"'There are eighty of you in the car,' the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing, you will all be shot, like dogs'" (Wiesel 24). This shows the dehuminizations and oppression of Jews in the example of comparing Jews to being dogs about to be shot, Relating to EQ #2.

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" She kept asking why she had
been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical"(Wiesel 24). A ramification of prejudice is the dehumanization of a certain group. Mrs. Schächter was separated from her family which caused her many mental problems.

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¨I glanced at Mrs. Schächter. Her little boy was still holding her hand¨(Wiesel 28). Empathy is a seed of social action because Eli felt empathy towards Mrs. Schächter sun and how he must have felt scared and frighten not knowing exactly what was going on.

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¨Her husband and two older sons had been deported
with the first transport, by mistake. The separation had totally
shattered her¨(Wiesel 24). The ramification of prejudice and apathy shows the unfair, disrespect, and dehumanization the Jew families had to face.

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“Mrs. Schachter remained huddled in her corner, mute, untouched by the optimism around her” (Wiesel 27). One chooses hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and oppression by having family and others to remain hopeful and to keep fighting for. I say this because unlike some others who were remaining hopeful, Ms. Schachter's  husband and two older sons had been deported with the first transport, by mistake which "shattered her". For this reason she had no one to perservere and remain hopeful for, all that she had to live her was gone. The others however stayed optimistic because they did have family and had to overlook the oppression because it was better than being pessimistic and imagining a life without their family.

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"Some even insinuated
that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad"(Wiesel 7). The ramification of prejudice shows how people see the homeless as unwashed crazy people.

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"In fact, we felt
this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves" (Wiesel 11) Even though the Jews are being treated like rats in cages, they still try to find the bright side to keep their morale up.

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“...we never ate enough to satisfy our hunger. Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow. Tomorrow could be worst yet” (Wiesel 23). The ramifications of the prejudice against the Jews meant that the Jews were so traumatized by what they had already experienced so they did not eat everything that was available because so far everyday was a new challenge with more of their rights being violated. Therefore, parents were saving food for their children and they were all under-eating because of their fear of the upcoming days and challenges. The hatred of the Nazi's is inflicting fear and pain on the Jews in many ways.

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Roots for prejudice, racism and apathy didn't necessarily "sprout" from one origin, but instead it came from a plethora of occurrences that all connect together in a common interest: killing the Jews. Wiesel writes, "She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams be- came hysterical". Here she is being treated like an animal and she has been robbed of her respect, freedom, and basic human rights. This contributes to the widespread apathy among the Nazi which is part of the base to this genocide.

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"the others, some of whom I had once feared, some of
whom I had found ridiculous, all those whose lives I had shared
for years"(Wiesel 17). In this quote, Wiesel shows empathy by recognizing that the people he knew, whether he liked them or not, were being sent away.

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“Standing in the middle of the car, in the faint light filtering through the windows, she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat” (Wiesel 25) Here Elie Wiesel uses a simile to compare how Ms.Schachter looks because of all that she has experienced to a withered tree in a field of wheat. By using this simile, Wiesel helps the reader visualize Ms.Schachter as an elderly women that was in pain. The purpose that he conveys is the dehumanizing effects that this oppression has inflicted on people.

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"Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer
their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for
the machine guns"(Wiesel 6). The author uses brutality to show how evil the soldiers are to the jewish people.

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"She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor w o m a n … That's why she speaks of flames devouring h e r … " (Wiesel 25). An example of ramification and prejudice is the slow progression of the jews going mad due to terrible living conditions.

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“Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God”(Wiesel 27). The jews believed in each other when it was claimed they would be free. The lie of freedom gave them the hope they so desperately needed.

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“We decided to take turns sitting” (Wiesel 23). The jews came to an understanding that empathy was crucial if they were going to survive with their sanity because as long as they keep their moral they have hope.

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"Auschwitz." Nobody had ever heard that name (Wiesel 27). Wiesel knew the readers would know this name which hinted that the story was really going to start.

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"' I knew nothing about them... Since 1940, my mother had not received a single letter from them. But I lied: " Yes, my mother did hear from them. Reizel is fine. So are the children...' (Wiesel 44). Empathy is a seed of social action, Wiesel conveys this message by including this scene in his memoir. Wiesel shows empathy towards Stein from Antwerp by giving him hope and a reason to keep up his optimism by saying that his family was fine even though he did not know that. His empathy is a seed of social action because he made it possible for someone to remain hopeful and to keep fighting so that he would not end up sad and shattered like Ms. Scachter.

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Roots of ramifications of prejudice, racism and apathy are seen when "Mrs. Schächter had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family" (Wiesel 24). This is dehumanizing for her to go through.

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The quote "There was a labor camp on the site.The conditions were good. Families would not be separated.Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields." (Wiesel 27) shows optimism and choosing hope in a oppressed and dehumanizing period when they point out the good things out of a terrible occurrence.

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"My sisters and I were still allowed to move about, as we were destined for the last convoy, and so we helped as best we could." (Wiesel 16)  Empathy is a seed of social action which is conveyed by the empathetic gestures of movement to make life a little easier on others.

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Wiesel uses specific words for the readers to view the situations to have a better, deeper view on the holocaust.

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The roots and ramifications of prejudice come from the hatred and stereotypes throughout the world. In night by Elie Wiesel, hatred is toward the Jews and they are treated terribly. Like animals, "If anyone goes missing, you will be shot, like dogs" (Wiesel 24).

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“Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God”(Wiesel 27). The belief in god, gives them hope over all the oppression towards them.

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Feeling empathy can be a feeling shared with others. "She is mad, poor women" (Wiesel 25). They were noticing the women’s emotion. Communication between each other makes it a social action.

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the imagery in Wiesel's writing is effectively delivering the purpose of his writing within each scene. For example, "Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…" (Wiesel 26). We the readers can clearly see the danger and scariness in this situation.

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“Mrs. Schätcher had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family. Later, her sobs and screams became hysterical” (Wiesel 24). This shows the effects of these things in a sense of how someone can only go on for so long under conditions like this until they become what their oppressors want to be. Mrs. Schätcher could only be treated like an animal for so long, and as a result the fascists made her turn to exactly that, an animal.

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“Of course, there still were unpleasant moments. Every day, the Germans came looking for men to load coal into the military trains. Volunteers for this kind of work were few. But apart from that, the atmosphere was oddly peaceful and reassuring.” (Wiesel 12). When faced with situations of oppression one doesn’t choose to be perseverant, one is forced to be perseverant. If one let’s the true reality of a situation such as this one, they will only further tear themselves apart. So one doesn’t choose to do it, they do it out of necessity to avoid becoming like someone such as Mrs. Schätcher.

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“Lying Down was not an option, nor could we all sit down. We decided to take turns sitting.”(Wiesel 23). This shows how empathy can be a seed of social action. By recognizing the struggles of others like in this situation the Jews are using their want to help themselves that they can’t exhort to help others.  This acts as a catalyst to learning how to use this want to help oneself to help others who are just like you, and this builds the legs for social action to stand on.

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1. “London radio, which we listened to every evening, announced encouraging news: the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad the preparation of the Second Front. And so we, the Jews of Sighet, waited for better days that surely were soon to come.”(Wiesel ⅞). In this quote Wiesel uses one literary device to disguise another. In this quote it looks like this is some sort of allusion to future events, but from further reading and through combining similar experiences later in the book one can see this throughout the book where Wiesel uses allusion to disguise irony to give the reader the same ignorance he thought that he and fellow jews had at the time. It helps to make the reader feel the same regret that the Jews did about not seeing future events coming.

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“The conditions were good. Families would not be separated. Only the young would work in the factories. The old and the sick would find work in the fields. Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights' terror. We gave thanks to God." that is an example of people choosing hope and perseverance over despair in the face of dehumanization and oppresion.

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“Mrs. Schätcher had lost her mind. On the first day of the journey, she had already begun to moan. She kept asking why she had been separated from her family." That is the first ramification of prejudice since she is asking about her family and going insane.

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“We decided to take turns sitting." That is proof that even though the Jews were packed in a small cattle car, they still felt empathy for each other.

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Weisel uses Moishe to foreshadow the future events and the danger the Jews will experience

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I think it comes from a sense of shame. When people feel low, they need to feel above someone, and so they put someone down.