"This conversation cannot have lasted more than a few minutes. It seemed like an eternity to me."
-"Night", Wiesel, page 41
Fear is evident in this quote, showing how Elie's horror is dragging out time longer than it really is. He is fearful for not only his life, but being separated from his father as well. The word "eternity" especially shows how the time seemed to drag on for Elie.
It could also be interpreted as not fear, but anticipation. Elie had lied about his age, and was probably quite nervous and eager (I'm not sure eager is a good word here, but whatever) to hear whether he would be discovered for his lie.
"Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and turned my dreams to dust."
-"Night",Wiesel, page 43
Again, fear is strong in this quote, but it also shows a major loss of hope. Elie is defying his God and saying his dreams are basically crushed. The figurative language really expresses the loss of hope, filling the reader with a sense of dread and fear.
Saying that the moments 'murdered my God' is really shocking here, as Elie is Jewish and therefore has strong faith in his God. He's saying that the times were so bad, he gave up on his God.
Which is bad. Very, very bad.
2 comments:
I love how much detail and thought you do in the analysis.
Susan, you did a really good job analyzing your two quotes as always. Also you picked two really good quotes to analyze because you can get into a lot of detail with them. Also these two quotes are fairly easy to analyze.
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