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"The camp looked as though it had suffered an epidemic"(45).

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My starved stomach was begging me to leap at the two unguarded soup rations on the table.

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"A prolonged whistle split the air"(p.20).

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"As dusk fell, darkness gathered inside the wagon" (25).

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I was next in line to see the notorious Dr. Mengele; it was he who had the power to decide the turning point to my horror story.

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"German soldiers- with their steel helmets and their emblem, the deaths head"(pg. 7).

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The wind was ice at Auschwitz.

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I could hardly eat my soup because I was thinking about that boy, a bird with its wings clipped sitting in its own guilt.

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"The camp looked as though it had suffered an epidemic (45)".

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"The camp looked as though it suffered an epidemic." (45)

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"The dentist, a jew from Czechoslovakia, had a face like a death mask"(49)

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"They think I'm mad," he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes (5)."

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"The camp looked as though it had suffered an epidemic: empty and dead"(45).

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The thought of babies being used for target practice made me tremble like I was having a seizure.

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"...he would whisper, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes" (Wiesel 5).

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Her screech was as retched as someone getting there fingernails pulled off.

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"It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depths of her being"(pg. 23).

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"It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depths of her being"(23)
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In this text, Elie meant that the way she was shouting out random and frightening phrases made it seem that she was possessed by an evil spirit.

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The cattle car was like putting thirty elephants in a cramped classroom.

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"This news spread like wildfire through Sighet" (7).

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"...We can't go like beasts to the slaughter"(29).

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I opened my mouth to speak, but nothing came out, as if my voice had vanished into thin air.

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"A wind of calmness and reassurance blew through our houses" (4).

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"We can't go like beast to the slaughter."(16)

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Her scream was like a child suddenly being brutally abused throughout the night.