After Eliezer's father asked him if he remembered Mrs. Schachter in the train... he than remembered a lot of things that he would never forget. He sat there remembering all the things that he saw that he would never forget like; the first night in camp, the smoke, the small faces of the children whose body transformed into smoke, the flames that consumed his faith forever, the nocturnal silence that deprived him for all eternity of the desire to live, those moments that murdered his God and soul and turned his dreams to ashes, those things, even were he condemned to live as long as God himself.
Him being at that camp made him developed these memories that he would never forget because he saw them with his own eyes and it kind of scarred him for life.
This shows what kind of terrible effect the entire experience had on the prisoners, and Eliezer. When it says, "He sat there remembering all the things that he saw that he would never forget like; the first night in camp, the smoke, the small faces of the children whose body transformed into smoke, the flames that consumed his faith forever, the nocturnal silence that deprived him for all eternity of the desire to live, those moments that murdered his God and soul and turned his dreams to ashes, those things, even were he condemned to live as long as God himself.
ReplyDeleteHim being at that camp made him developed these memories that he would never forget because he saw them with his own eyes and it kind of scarred him for life.", it shows how the camp had such an impression on Elie Wiesel and most of his memories were of "smoke, flames", "silence" and deprivation.