In chapter two, when they were on the way to the camp. There was hundred of people in one little train cart. They have not received food or water in two days, but why? It really came to me after that point that they well not get much good and water while there in the camp. They need food they do, everyone does it hurts to read about it. I imagined that if i was very hungry my stomach making all these noises and could not eat forever. I could just feel how weak everyone was. If they all were scared they really did not think of being hungry or even food, they just wanted to know what was happening and where they were going. As they rode through towns, it stuck me that none of the people in them ever wondered where they were going. It hurt because …show more content…
I found many metaphors, simile and personification quotes. One metaphor that stuck out at me was “he was judged too humane. The new one was ferocious and his aides were veritable monsters. The good days were over.”(44) The aides were not literally veritable monsters, but this statement is applicable figuratively to describe the cruel nature the aides possessed. There was no more good day ever again, to him this how he explained his. Personification that seen “The women silently greeted the musicians with their eyes.” (50) The eyes of the women was given living traits in the sense of greeting the men, which eyes can not literally do. I think Elie felt like that, because he has not used to seeing girls. I felt like he glanced at her and she might of winked or stared at him. For a smile that really caught my eye was “he began beating him with an iron bar. At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning.” (54) Elie’s father's body reaction to the officer's blows to that of a tree struck by lighting using "like". I do not know how he just sat there and watched it happened and did not do anything about