https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9 By: Ansley Maye P.5 en-us 2016-12-06 22:40:09 UTC 2016-12-07 17:48:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 1100342102 https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142175935 "In my father's place lay another invalid. They must have taken him away before dawn and carried him away to the crematory. He may still have been breathing. There were no prayers at his grave. (Weisel, 106)".

This piece of dialogue propels the action in this chapter of the story because it informs the reader that Elie's father had died and "hooks" the reader deeper into the story as well as continuing the action by adding a new element to the story.]]> 2016-12-06 22:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142175935 1100342102 https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142176709 "When I came back from bread distribution, I found my father weeping like a child (104)".

The phrase "weeping like a child" is a simile because it compares two things, which, in this case are a child's weeping and Elie's father weeping using the word "like". This example of figurative language adds to the story by giving more detail and adding more colorful language that makes it easier to relate to what the author is talking about. The author is trying to communicate just how child-like his father's weeping was.]]> 2016-12-06 22:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142176709 1100342102 https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142177216 "I had to stay at Buchenwald until April eleventh. I have nothing to say of my life during this period. It no longer mattered. After my father's death, nothing could touch me anymore (107)'.

This excerpt from chapter nine suggests a change in Elie's attitude towards his life and predicament at this time. For example, when he says "nothing could touch me anymore" it suggests that he has given up on all hope of escaping and is deeply troubled and upset by the death of his father even more so than he thought originally. ]]> 2016-12-06 22:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142177216 1100342102 https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142177828 "Then the resistance movement started to act. Armed men suddenly rose up everywhere..At about six 'o clock in the evening, the first American tank stood at the gates of Buchenwald...(109)".

This passage from the story propels the action because it shows that Buchenwald is being invaded by American troops that are attempting to liberate the Jews inside of Buchenwald. This increases suspense in the story and adds an interesting and slightly uplifting ending to the story



]]> 2016-12-06 23:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142177828 1100342102 https://padlet.com/1100342102/z7eyezp95rl9/wish/142178440  "Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning...One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, never left me (109)"

This dialogue suggests that throughout the story, Elie expiriences such change from when he was a carefree, religous boy in the ghetto, to this hopeless and depressed "corpse" that he is now. The look in his eye must have seen so helpless and that he must have been so profoundly moved by it that he remembers it for the rest of his life
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