Friday, January 20, 2012

Quote Analysis 3 & 4

Quote: " Let the world learn of the existence of Auschwitz. Let everybody hear about it, while they can still escape . . . ." (Wiesel 40).
Analysis: The other man who said this was a  rebel but only to a certain extent. What is saying is that to whom of those who could escape to spread the word of the cruelty and death that is occurring at Auschwitz. I believe by the man using 'existence' he really meant by the truth of it. He is saying that people don't really know the truths of concentration camps and they go to the extent of being recalled as death camps. 

Quote: "Yitgadal veyitkadach shme raba . . . . May His Name be blessed and magnified . . . ." (Wiesel 42).

Analysis: Elie's father seems to know what this man is feeling and what is mostly likely going to happen to him. 'May His Name be blessed and magnified' is almost the same meaning as 'May His Soul rest in peace'. Elie's father knows that in the near future he, along with hundreds and thousands others, will be killed and burned in the crematorium. He knows what the man that is praying is feeling because he is feeling the same at that very moment. I think what Elie's father did was the respectful thing to do and is a sign of strength at this low point in time.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Quote Analysis

Quote: "Well, there you are, you see! What did we tell you? you wouldn't believe us. There they are your Germans! What do you think of them? Where is their famous cruelty?" (Wiesel 19).
Analysis: The people of the town who bought to this act that the Germans were pulling really were blinded. Their denial of the Germans and their plans have blinded them of what truly behind their smiles. This quote has a little bit of dramatic irony because we, the readers and moche, are the only ones knowing of the German's plans for the town. The people of the town are blind and gullible. They take what they believe is not possible over someone who is mentally, physically, and emotionally damaged from what the Germans have done to him. I believe the people are too stuck up and fearful of the truth to believe a man from the ghetto.



Quote: "You can't understand. I have been saved miraculously. I managed to get back here. Where did I get the strength from? I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So thet you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don"t attach my importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me . . ." (Wiesel 17).

Analysis: Moche seemed true and scared from what he has experienced. His wounds run deep in both his flesh and mind. Moche has changed to only help the people who once cared for him to safety and avoid the Germans. He almost seems to say that his past self died back in those woods where he witness and was apart of just the beginning of the German's cruelty. He speaks with truth in his words and no man or madman would be able to say or think of such things. Nor would a man come back with wounds deeper damage to ones self without good reason. I think Moche is speaking of the truth, because no man would come up with such lies of people of his own town being killed in the masses without hesitation or thought of human dignity.