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And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished.
Behind me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."
That night, the soup tasted of corpses.
This passage shows characterization, like how Elie was like in the beginning and then how he was like after he went into the camp. In the beginning, he was very spiritual and he was studying religious texts. But after he was in the camp and experiencing hunger and death, he begins to wonder where God is. Since he experienced death everywhere, he wasn't able to enjoy the soup because he was very depressed with how cruel the Nazis were.
--Janet
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Janet, you brought up a good point there. I feel the disconnection Elie has with God as these unfortunate things happen to him. Good passage!
ReplyDeleteThis was a good passage choice, Janet. He was very religious before he came but after he endured such tragic things, he lost faith. Many other people lost faith in this book, such as the Rabbi.
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