"She [Madame Schachter] continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. 'Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!'"
(Elie Wiesel, "Night," page 34)
Foreshadowing is the main thing I sensed in this quote. After the characters left the ghetto and got onto the train, Madame Schachter's terrified words about fire and a furnace could only foreshadow one thing: a Nazi death camp. The author really shows how fearful Madame Schachter was, and how the other Jews must have felt when they pulled into Auschwitz.
It can also show two different things about Madame Schachter- how she has very fiery and persistent personality, or the fact that she is going crazy. With just this quote, you would infer that she is crazy- what king of lady would see fire in the middle of the night? But if you continued to read and saw that they were arriving at Auschwitz, you would see that perhaps she isn't a crazy as she looks.
4 comments:
The analysis for the quotes were very good and you used alot of detail.
The anaylasis was good overall, but we don't know for a fact that madame schachter is really crazy.
I like how your relation to the author is in your analysis!
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