2/20/2017 2 Comments Night SignpostsThe Signpost that I noticed was again and again I found it on page 74 when Elie's father said me too twice. The reason he repeated himself was because he was out of breath from all of the running he had done. He had just learned that he was picked for further inspection at the recent selection because he was too weak to work. After he learned this information he gave Eliezer a knife just in case he were to be sent to death. I think the author brought this up because it was an important detail to emphasize the seriousness of what was currently happening. If he hadn't repeated himself then it wouldn't seem so serious. When he repeated himself it showed how out of breath his father was. Since he was out of breath you can infer that his father was running to share this information. This shows how urgent it was.
Another Signpost I found was on page 100. This is a memory moment signpost. This occurs as Elie is telling the stories about how people would kill each other for a piece of bread that someone had thrown in. As he is telling this story he recalls a similar time on his ship. Passengers would throw coins to the peasants and watched them fight over the money. He asked one woman to stop but she simply replied that she was giving back to charity. This is an important memory because this event was so similar and probably triggered the memory of Elie's time in the holocaust. The final Signpost I found was on page 102. This was a words of the wiser signpost. After Meir Katz saves Elie from the man who was strangling him, he went to Shlomo and told him that he couldn't go on any further but Shlomo insisted that he must not lose hope and urged him with all of his might to fight to stay alive. The life lesson here is to not give up, even when times are bad you simply can't. It affected Meir Katz by making him more willing to stay alive. Before he was going to give up on life but after Shlomo told him that he still has strength in him, it made him want to fight harder to stay alive. These are some of my signposts that I found in Night by Elie Wiesel
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