“‘I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves while there is still time. Life? I no longer care to live…but I wanted to come back to warn you. Only no one is listening to me’” (Wiesel 7). 1. This passage is from the first chapter of the book. Moishe the Beadle, a foreign Jew who was expelled from the town of Sighet, where the narrator, Eliezer Wiesel, lives, is warning Eliezer of the danger he faced when he was expelled and how that same danger is imminent. He is also complaining that no one will listen to him, because they pity him – or that they are optimistic that what happened to him will not happen to them. 2. Moishe tells Eliezer that he didn’t want to come back to Sighet for his personal …show more content…
Wiesel says that during his evacuation, he first started to hate, specifically the Hungarian police, and that the only thing that links him and the Hungarian police is his absolute hatred for them. He goes on to say that he hates them specifically because of the fact that they were the first ones that he could link to the torment that was yet to come. 3. Wiesel includes these words in Night to show the reader a subtle, almost undetectable change in himself. Before this point in time, Wiesel portrayed himself as a young man intent on studying the teachings of the Messiah, who always demonstrated the proper behaviors and never revealed his emotions. Now, though, during this event, he confesses to the reader that he feels hate – a strong emotion – for the Hungarian police, and he foreshadows that there is more hatred to come. This passage symbolizes the beginning of Wiesel’s transformation over the course of events in Night. 4. This passage makes me realize that hate is one of the main emotions that caused the events of WWII to unfold the way they did. The Germans’ hate for the Jewish people, the Jewish people’s hate for their oppressors, the hate that kept going around and around…and look what it did. I think that by realizing what hate is and how powerful it can be, I think that I will reconsider saying, “I hate this” or “I hate that” the next time I’m angry and