Quote Analysis of night sections 1&2

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"A little Jewish republic.... We appointed a Jewish council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department - --a whole government machinery" -Elie (Wiesel 21 m).

In saying this, I believe Elie is saying it wasn't to bad living in the ghetto. He's saying that even though they were being forced around and corralled that the life wasn't that bad for the kids and not much changed. He's also saying that there were many people in the ghetto, considering that there was a Council, police force, etc... This also shows that in the worst of times people can still work through.

2:)

"A piercing cry split the silence: 'Fire! I can see a fire! I can see a fire!'...She pointed her arm at the window, screaming: ' Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire! '" -Elie (Wiesel 33-34)

Elie explains the terror in everyone's heart. This also foreshadows the burning the Nazis did to the Jews, the mass burnings and the insinerations in the cremetorium. It is also hyperbole, she doesn't really see fire but she knows that the trip isn't going to end well.