2/20/2017 0 Comments Night signposts The signpost I wrote about is ´words of the wiser´on page 74. Elie was in the infirmary because he had a problem with his foot, and a older man laying in the bed next to him started giving him advice, and telling him to leave the infirmary before the next selection because it is much worse, and he was talking from experience, and that´s how I knew it was words of the wiser. To answer the question¨What´s the life lesson and how might it affect the character?¨ It affects the character because if he stays in the infirmary he could die because he is not strong enough, and if he stayed in there too long without knowing he might not make it through the next selection, but I don´t think it had a major life lesson.
Another signpost I noticed is on page 100, and it was a memory moment. One year, Elie saw men scrambling for a few bread crumbs that some workers threw, and a few years later he saw a women throw pennies in a well of water, and it reminded him that it could have been a matter of weather the person lived or not when they were fighting for the crumbs, and the women was just freely throwing pennies when there was no need for it. To answer the question ¨Why might this memory be important?¨ It was important because it brought his mind back to the time where he witnessed them fighting over the bread crumbs and now the children were strangling each other for pennies for a game, but to Elie it was not a game. My last signpost was on page 105, and it was a aha moment. Schlomo was about to die and he was telling Elie that he could not go on any longer, but Elie still tried to tell him that he could not just give up like that and that he had to keep fighting and not go to sleep, but then soon after that, Elie realized that he was fighting for a lost cause, he figured out his father has already chosen death and there was nothing he could do about it. To answer the question ¨How might this change things?¨ It changed things because Elie no longer wanted to fight for his father, he started to think of him as more of a burden than a family member, and Elie knew his death was soon to come so it made it easier for him to get over it.
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