In Night by Elie Weisel, as early as the novel's dedication, “in memory of my parents and little sister Tzipora,” it is evident that Elie will be the only significant character in the book who survives through the whole story. As readers, we are not surprised by their inevitable deaths; instead, Elie shocks us with the details of the cruelty that the prisoners experience. Although the ending is obvious to most readers, Weisel still uses foreshadowing in the novel to give hints as to what happens to him next.
Moshie, a friend and teacher to Elie, warns the town about the Nazis at the beginning. Also in chapter one, there was a radio announcement warning the people in the ghetto and the reader, “German troops had penetrated Hungary with …show more content…
Her husband and two other sons had been deported in the first departure, and this event had precipitated her descent into madness. Elie relates how the older womans moans had eventually turned into piercing screams about a fire in the distance. Screaming and crying, she yells, “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” (Weisel 24). Although many of her fellow passengers attempted to calm her down, they were soon emotionally drained by her screaming fits. Eventually, in desperation, some men held her down and gagged her to keep her quiet. Despite the fact that none of her fellow passengers could not see the fire she was screaming about, her nightmarish warning soon proved prescient. When the passengers arrived at Auschwitz, they saw a chilling glimpse of “flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky” (Weisel 28). The smell of the burning corpses in the air was both disconcerting and sickening . Thus, Madame Schachter's nightmare not only foreshadowed the dehumanization from Hitler's genocidal ambition. Not only were whole communities coldly executed and cremated, those still living often succumbed to apathy and cruel violence as means of coping. In all, Madame Schachter's nightmare was horribly prescient.
Madame Schachter's screams on the ride to the camp is an example of foreshadowing that had a big impact on the passengers and reader. Her nightmare foreshadowed the annihilation
Moshie, a friend and teacher to Elie, warns the town about the Nazis at the beginning. Also in chapter one, there was a radio announcement warning the people in the ghetto and the reader, “German troops had penetrated Hungary with …show more content…
Her husband and two other sons had been deported in the first departure, and this event had precipitated her descent into madness. Elie relates how the older womans moans had eventually turned into piercing screams about a fire in the distance. Screaming and crying, she yells, “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” (Weisel 24). Although many of her fellow passengers attempted to calm her down, they were soon emotionally drained by her screaming fits. Eventually, in desperation, some men held her down and gagged her to keep her quiet. Despite the fact that none of her fellow passengers could not see the fire she was screaming about, her nightmarish warning soon proved prescient. When the passengers arrived at Auschwitz, they saw a chilling glimpse of “flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky” (Weisel 28). The smell of the burning corpses in the air was both disconcerting and sickening . Thus, Madame Schachter's nightmare not only foreshadowed the dehumanization from Hitler's genocidal ambition. Not only were whole communities coldly executed and cremated, those still living often succumbed to apathy and cruel violence as means of coping. In all, Madame Schachter's nightmare was horribly prescient.
Madame Schachter's screams on the ride to the camp is an example of foreshadowing that had a big impact on the passengers and reader. Her nightmare foreshadowed the annihilation