Module 5 Paragraph Analysis: Elie

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In this passage, Elie is on a bed inside the infirmary because of the injury to his right foot. There was a Hungarian Jew next to Elie who was suffering from dysentery, which is an infection of the intestines. The only thing that showed he was alive was his voice. Elie questions “Where did he get the strength to speak?” This is validated as all the pain people were enlightened to within the concentration camp made no sense for any Jew to have the ability to speak. Elie describes the Hungarian Jew as being just a skin and bone with dead eyes, which reflects on his scrawny body and the feeling that he may be dead judging by his eyes. This is also a Metaphor as Elie is comparing the man to just skin and bones. My stance on this situation is simply

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