As I am reading, I notice a really common theme pop up. Well, maybe it isn't a theme exactly, but it seems important to the author. And that is night. Do you notice that Monica? Elisha is always talking about night. I think I know why though. Everything that Elisha does is at night. All the killings, raids, everything. I bet night is important to the author because that is where the violence takes place. Maybe the dark is a scary place to him. Do you think so Monica? Or do you think what I have noticed has nothing to do with the story?
Also, Elisha said he does not care about killing, but I don't believe him. Instead of saying going out to kill people, he says 'putting on the gray colors of the SS'. (30) I think that it is hard for him to say what he is doing. It probably brings up bad memories of his life in the concentration camps. I'm assuming his life was a lot like Elie's life in Night. He was always surrounding by killing, and threatened to be killed. Then suddenly he became the killer. If I were Elisha, I bet that would be hard to think about. All that terror that people were inflicting on him, he was now giving it to other people. That is pretty horrible, and I think that Elisha is repressing his true feelings about the people that he killed. So far in the book, he remembers exactly how many people he has killed. Each time, and how he did it. It is obvious that he cares because he remembers. If he didn't remember, he wouldn't care. Remembering is kind of like caring in a way. Do you think remembering is caring Monica?
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