Passage #1

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On page 9-10
"ANGUISH. German soldiers-with their steel helmets and their death's-head emblem. Still, our first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring. The officers were billeted in private homes, even in Jewish homes. Their attitude toward their hosts was distant but polite. They never demanded the impossible, made no offensive remarks, and sometimes even smiled at the lady of the house. A German officer lodged in the Kahns' house across the street from us. We were told he was a charming man, calm, likable, and polite. Three days after he moved in, he brought Mrs. Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists were jubilant: "Well? What did we tell you? You wouldn't believe us. There they are, your Germans. What do you say now? Where is their famous cruelty."
The Germans were already in our town, the Fascists were already in power, the verdict was already out-and the Jews of Sighet were still smiling."

I choose this passage because it shows dramatic irony. The Germans have crossed into Hungary and the Jews aren't worried. Though Moishe the Beadle and Moishe Chaim Berkowitz have warned the Jews of the Germans' cruelty such as, forcing the Jews to work, then killing them, including infants, and Jewish stores and synagogues being attacked, the Jews don't believe them. The Jews believe that the Germans are not brutal people because they were nice and polite.

But this shows dramatic irony because we know more than what the characters know. We know that a huge number of Jews will be killed by the Germans because this is the Holocaust. But the Jews are unaware of their fate and I want to tell them what is going to happen and warn them to escape.

--Janet :)