... burnout into a cloud of smoke. From this scene the audience is prepared to see the extermination of the Jews to follow. The candle represents the Jewish population, and the burning of these candles is a symbol of the holocaust, which will soon follow. The image of smoke is similar to the smoke we later see coming from the concentration camps later in the film. THUS SMOKE COMES TO SYMBOLISE DEATH Secondly we see ... this cloud of smoke from the burnt out candle transform into the next scene ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... not move, what happened to me My father had just been struck , before my very eyes , and I had not flickered an eyelid" This is the point in the story in which you see Elie realising he can't save his family. Wiesel feels immensely guilty but he knows that if he wants to live he would now need ... himself. Elie's father has just been hit, but Elie does nothing, he doesn't know what has happened to him. "No prayers were said over his tomb. No candle lit in his memory. His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me ... look...

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• Grade Level: High School