Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Night Quotes

1.) 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: This person is being sarcastic and telling the other people of the town how wrong they were about, the Germans. They are trying to explain how silly it is to believe the Germans are cruel, and how they were right, that the Germans were not cruel at all.


2.) Quote: "It was not until after the war that I learned who it was that had knocked"(Wiesel, 24)

Analysis: In this statement Ellie is foreshadowing what will happen later. He just didn't know about it in this point of the story.