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Devout
"Why do you pray?" he asked after a moment.
Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did
I breathe?

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Doubtful
"Why do you want people to
believe you so much? In your place I would not care whether they
believed me or not... "

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Hopeful
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.

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Afraid
Budapest radio announced that the Fascist party had seized
power. German troops
had penetrated Hungarian territory with the government's approval. German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets.

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Calm before the storm Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community.
From that moment on, everything happened very quickly.
The race toward death had begun.

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Numb
I looked at my house in which I had spent years seeking my
God, fasting to hasten the coming of the Messiah, imagining what
my life would be like later. Yet I felt little sadness. My mind was
empty.

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Sugar-coat
"They worry lest we join the partisans..."
"As far as I'm concerned, this whole business of deportation is
nothing but a big farce. Don't laugh. They just want to steal our
valuables and jewelry. They know that it has all been buried and
that they will have to dig to find it; so much easier to do when the
owners are on vacation..."

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Secure
“NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly.”
In this context of night, night is secure. One can be able to see you to judge you in the night.

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Loneness
“Some pressed against the bars to see. There was nothing. Only the darkness of night.”

In this context of night, night is lonely. The darkness of night brings a sense of loneness making the people feel sad.

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Change
"Was there here a single place where
one was not in danger of death?"
"No guard in sight, only the chimney's shadow...Lulled
by the sunshine and my dreams,"

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strong willed
"I refused to give him my shoes." "my gold crown was safe." There are two main examples of Eli being strong willed in this section. He doesn't give up his shoes and he doesn't give up his gold crown to the dentist.

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Submissive
Eli realizes for his survive he needs to obey since if he did keep his gold crown he could not keep it. " I obeyed." "I wanted to run away" He took the punishment and he did not escape the terror he'd encounter. Eli is losing his spunk.

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Obligation to family
"I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I
was his sole support."
Even though Eli would like to just give up and die he has this obligation to his father because Eli knows without him his father would give up living as well and will be unable to continue. Both share the purpose of one another well-being.

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Loss
"Suddenly, the evidence overwhelmed me: there was no longer
any reason to live, any reason to fight."
Like I described in the pervious entree the only reason for living for Eli was his father now that he is dead Eli has to confront reality. He is going to be forced to accept this loss. The loss of his purpose, the loss of this father.