1. Critical Stance:
Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with
each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure
themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom. The
contrast is that they are losing hope from what might happen to them and in the
attempts to reassure them selves they look at the bright side to give them hope
in the dark hours.
2.Dialectical Journal Entries
The “race towards death” is a very important quote in this story
because it talks about how Jews started to go into Auschwitz. Another major
quote is how everyone was saying the prayer to the dead for themselves when
they though they were going to the crematories this shows how they were so
scared going into it. Third there’s the quote about their conditions mud for a
floor, having to stand up to sleep, and their treatment shows how poorly they
are treated. Fourth there is a quote
about how the Germans first came very nice then they changed and put them in
ghettos and deported them. Lastly
there’s the nightmares how the madam said flames going there where it came to
be true because of the crematories.
