In the story Mrs. Schachter's behavior foreshadows that she really seemed like a hallucinating lunatic. As the story goes on she was actually a prophet. She could see things that no one else could see or believe awhile ahead of time. She was yelling about a fire that no one else could see when she saw it. On the train once they arrived at the final stop she had yelled about seeing fire again, but only this time everyone else could see it too. “Jews, look! Look at the fire! Look at the flames!” “And as the train stopped, this time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky(28)”
Look at the fire! Look at the flames! “ (Wiesel). People are now seeing the fire just like Madame Schachter did. The prisoners in the beginning were trying to convert Madame Schachter.
For example on page 25 a woman on the train with Elie named Madam Schächter cries, "Jews listen to me, I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!" Wiesel uses her hallucinations to foreshadow what is about to happen to most of the men, women, and children arriving at the camps. The others on the train with her said, "She is hallucinating because she is thirsty, poor woman. . . That 's why she speaks of flames devouring her. . ." However, in her fear, she is the most honest and accurate about what is going to happen. Everyone on the train hated Madame Schachter because she was screaming about her vision of flames which no one could see. When Elie and his father finally get off the train, they see the thick black smoke and smell the flesh in the air around them and they see, for the first time, that Madam Schachter 's visions were true.
Some of the people on the cart thought she was going crazy, because they couldn't seem to see the fires at all. I think that one of the reasons that people in the cart didn’t want to believer her was, because she had gone soulful after she had been separated from her husband. All she would do is sit in the corner of the cart and cry and moan and wasn't able to control it at all. When they had finally got to Auschwitz
In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh” (28). The flames Mrs. Schacher was talking about were the ashes of the Jews that were burned in the camps. Fire represents death, one of the many dreadful events that happened at the Holocaust.
"The Paperhanger" by William Gay is a short story that delivers an unpredicted ending and very depth detail with setting and characters. The story involves a man they call the paperhanger, who was hired by a mother and doctor, who have a daughter Zeineb, to work on their home interior. One thing that stands out in the story is how none of the characters have names, except for the family's daughter. Gay may have been hinting that since he believes all humans are barbaric in nature, the only 'innocent' person in the story has a name, everyone else is only named by what they do career wise. "The Paperhanger" contains many hints of foreshadowing throughout the story, as all the hints will come together in the end. The setting and location details play an important role to how the story is interpreted, while also inferencing human nature in the way that all humans are bad people deep inside.
This shows how the Nazis burned people, including children, who were turned into smoke and ash, which shows an example of death. Another example of the symbol fire shown in the book is fear. This happens when Mrs. Schächter keeps experiencing visions of fire on the train while they are on their way to the camp. On page 24 & 25 Mrs. Schächter screams “Fire! I see a fire in the sky!
The woman on the train experiencing fire hallucinations is another instance of foreshadowing "Look at the flames! Observe the flames. There are flames everywhere.” Mrs. Schachtler was locked in and was unable to witness any flames at this time. Mrs. Schachtler couldn't see any fire at this point, she was locked in a train car, but Wiesel uses her crazy vision as a glimpse into the future.
One of the horrendous events presented in this memoir is when Mrs.Schachter was beaten. Mrs.Schachter lost her husband and her two older sons when they were accidently were deported. After losing her family she began to lose her mind she began to moan and ask questions of why she was separated from her family. Finally Mrs.Schachter started yelling “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!”(ch.2 pg.24) everyone grew tired of this and began to beat her senseless until she kept quite.
The fire refers to how many Jew’s fate was to be burned to death. One person describes Ms. Schächter as, “a withered tree in a field.” Withered tree make the reader think of sickly and malnourished, just like the Jews were during the Holocaust. Wiesel also writes, “We tried to reason with her, more to calm ourselves.” The Jews on the train had only been in
The author uses “fire” heavily with a negative connotation behind it to portray it as death rather than life that can be birthed from it. Madame Schacter was the first example, when she began to have visions of the furnace after being loaded on the train. This was foreshadowing the demise to come. The atrocity of burning babies first witnessed at the arrival to the camp shows the brutality and heartlessness displayed by the Germans. Not only did the crematory actually kill, but it became a symbol, even just the sight of one meant death.
He prefaces this section of the story with an abridged biography of Mrs. Schächter, giving details that would later completely contradict her behavior on the train explaining that she was « a quiet, tense woman…[who] had been a frequent guest in [Eliezer’s] house. » (Wiesel, 24). Eliezer’s only point of reference for this line is how her thought process and mental logic before being seized from her home was completely normal, and if anything on the quiet, and timid side. However, Eliezer’s observation that « it was as though she were possessed by some evil spirit » (25) is to exclusively exhibit evidence that her abduction and bestial treatment by the Nazis was the only argumentation that could possibly have been the cause of her change of mental state. He then has cognizance over the fact that in the scheme of imprisonment, delusion may get to his head unless he can keep stable, which then helps him stay out of his own psychotic
Most people in the world have had a hard time admitting that someone has died that they care about. In the world this happens a lot because it is a hard thing to excepted. Lucille Fletcher, the author of “The Hitchhiker” shows the fear of death through the eyes of the main character that can not escape that he is dead. He is being followed by a Hitchhiker that is representing death because the main character is dead which goes back to not admitting that someone is dead. In the story “The Hitchhiker,” Lucille Fletcher uses flashback, foreshadowing,and symbolism to build a mood.
Similarly, Elie deliberately uses several instances of foreshadowing as a warning that further develops the dehumanization theme. As the cattle car was approaching Auschwitz concentration camp, Madame Schächter screams, “’Jews listen to me,’ she cried. ‘I see fire! I see flames, huge flames’” (25 Wiesel)! Madame foreshadows the annihilation of millions of Jews being burned alive and dead within the crematoriums located at Auschwitz. Also, her hallucinations predicted the horrific fate of all the Jewish people, who would suffer
The first chapter of Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes a rose-bush in front of an old wooden prison door. Telling the reader that the rose symbolize some sweet moral blossom to the condemned. I can surmise that the author is foreshadowing the events that will take place throughout the story. The second chapter begins with women gossiping about a young lady named Hester Prynne and the consequence the magistrates decided on. The woman calls her a hussy, another women declares that the magistrates should have put a brand on her forehead, believing that having her wear the A on the bodice of her gown wouldn’t be enough. The woman’s crudity towards Hester was suprising, knowing these same women probably talked to her before she perpetrated her crime,
Examine the key features and weaknesses of Situation Ethics (21 marks) Situation Ethics was a phrase coined by Joseph Fletcher in the 1960’s in his book ‘Situation Ethics’. This book was his response to what he believed to be the downfalls of legalism in religion. As well as this , his book rejected the idea of antinomianism – ignoring or not following rules. He believed Situation Ethics to be the middle way between these two extremes.