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"Chief Rabbi, hunched over, his face strange looking without his beard" 

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"Chief Rabbi, hunched over, his face strange looking without his beard" 

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This shows that even the leader of the Jewish community has been mentally defeated by the Nazis, and this extends to rest of the Jews, showing how they have had their identity and humanity taken away from them

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The word hurry shows the SS are very inpatient and want everything done quick

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Like a page torn from a book- this shows that they're irrelevant because their page is gone and they no longer matters

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The time has come...you must leave all this

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The time has come...you must leave all this

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The use of the word "must leave" connotes the panic in the SS because the nearing of the end of the war. It connotes distress and power because everyone follows the SS commands.

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He considers himself lucky that he is going to be in the last convoy. He doesn't know or understand what is coming for him in his near future.

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Implies that the Jewish people are not only leaving their homes behind, but they're lives as well.

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water often has the connotation of being cleansed and this indicates that they are struggling to the point where they long to be cleansed of the pain and maybe even who they are

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Reinforces the idea of death

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"Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void."

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"Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void."

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Personification was used comparing the way the gaping doors and windows "looked" to an actual person curiously looking out and observing what is happening.

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This shows that everyone he knew for years that passed by him was broken or defeated.

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"Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void"-Shows that not only is the street empty, but also the general community has had a hole punched through it, and taken away, as though there is a major portion missing.

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"our veins, our limbs, our brains like molten lead"

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"our veins, our limbs, our brains like molten lead"

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This quote has of connotations the lack of time. It also foreshadows the end for the majority of people in the ghetto as lead is poisonous and can be fatal if it builds up in the body.

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They passed me by, one after the other...
They passed me by like beaten dogs...
Repetition enforces the message that even Elie stayed silent at mistreatment of his friends

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"Fairgrounds" - it shows a juxtaposition to the circumstances by having the connotation of fairgrounds be a happy place, even after empty but the gettos once emptied was viewed as an extremely sad place.

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"They passed me by, like beaten dogs."

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"like beaten dogs"
this represents how the people weren't treated like people, but instead were treated like animals.

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The author uses a constant theme of heat and fire to foreshadow later events.
"sweat streamed from people's faces and bodies", "Molten lead," "God's hell".

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"an open tomb"what was once his home is being described as an open tomb indicating that something has just died and it is surrounded by loss and sadness.

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"They passed me by, like beaten dogs." Represents how Elie saw the people in his town as beaten and broken. Whether he had once respected or ignored these people now they were all the same.

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"weariness had settled into our veins, our limbs, our brains, like molten lead" - It gives us a description on how the weariness is effecting them. We can infer that they didn't get much sleep the night before because they were worried about that day.

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This implies that Eliezier is being separated from the people he grew up with, his community and some of his most loved ones. This must be extremely emotional for him as he just stands there and observes everyone except for his family being separated from him and he must suffer through all of this.

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this word connotes good things and refreshment, it's also presumed to be cold, which is opposite to heat. Heat in this part of the text is being used as a metaphor for hell, and so water can be used as a metaphor for heaven. This metaphor can also be used for a reason why they weren't allowed water.

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This not only says that the houses were like open tombs, but it is foreshadowing what could happen.

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this gives the visual image to the reader of a resting place for a lot of dead people, as the spirits have left the body. Elie likens this to seeing the place of all their homes, deserted.

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"An open tomb" is used as a metaphor in the ghettos which is meaning how empty the streets were with places abandoned with rooms cleared out.

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it was discriminately striking the weak. Old men, children, cripples etc

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"there could be no greater torment in God's hell"

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"there could be no greater torment in God's hell"

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These Jewish people who were very religious saw that standing on the street was hell. The blazing sun shining on them felt like hell.

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"the tombstones" and "an open tomb"
this is foreshadowing the deaths of the people before and when they reach the concentration camps. it makes the ghetto seem like a cemetery, with the graves already dug.

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The repetition of death related words gives off a negative connotation.

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"They passed me by"
From this we can see the pain in Elie ignoring the treatment of his friends and close ones because of his survival.

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This idea of tomb and tombstones are already prominent at the start of the book and reinforces that idea of death