The mood created at the beginning of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night is one of fear and hopelessness. How I know that this is the mood, is a Jewish rabbi is telling people that the Gestapo are killing Jews in a nearby city, they are on there way to the the main characters town, in Transylvania. Soon after wards, the Gestapo arrive at the main characters city and begin to raid the town for valuables and the like.
"They (the Jews) were made to dig huge graves.And when finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners." Wiesel, pg. 4
"...Tobias, the tailor, who had begged to be killed before his sons..." Wiesel, pg. 4
"...their (the Hungarian police's) blows falling upon old men and women, children and invalids alike." Wiesel, pg. 14
MLA Citation:
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam, 1982. Print.
David this is a very good responce of the mood of thye story in the first few pages. The quotes you provided are good at showing how the mood is.
ReplyDeleteoh sorry also is wiessel the only character thats shown in the first few pages?
ReplyDeleteNo, there are multiple characters: everyone who resides in his town.
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