cause she yells, "Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!"(23), we later can assess that she was quite possibly the sanest person in the train car.
One of the things that makes Night an absolutely terrifying account to the reader is that it deals with the observations and feelings of one survivor. When an author writes something to the tune of "the Nazis burned children and babies," it simply doesn't have the same effect on the reader as, "A lorry drew up to the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it-saw it with my own eyes...those children in the flames"(p.30). How the reader can feel one person's emotions along with him is what makes Night such a breathtaking account of the holocaust. It also makes one believe the events that took place even though it is hard to imagine it.
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