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nodles
nodles
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Why does the author in the Night by Elie Wiesley compare the world into a cattle wagon?

its in pg 15.

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Posted by nodles on Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM and tagged with cattle wagon, compare, world.

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  1. dkgarran
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    Wiesel compares his new life to a cattle wagon because he is being completely sealed off from the world that he knows. He is headed for the unknown, it is dark and packed full of people. This also represents how the Nazis viewed the Jews they were sending to the concentration camps: nameless, faceless people who they treated like animals. Individuals were stripped of their identity and, essentially, taken to slaughter.

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    Posted by dkgarran on Wednesday September 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM