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.