Night Race Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 My father’s view was that it was not all bleak, or perhaps he just did not want to discourage the others, to throw salt on their wounds: |
People’s racial identity becomes their death (or the marker of death), as symbolized by the yellow star.
| Quote #2 Little by little life returned to "normal." The barbed wire that encircled us in did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic … A Jewish Council was appointed, as well as a Jewish police force, a welfare agency, a labor committee, a health agency–a whole government apparatus. |
The Jews of Sighet, despite their containment in a ghetto, find hope in the brotherhood of racial and cultural identity as Jews.
| Quote #3 I looked at my little sister, Tzipora, her blond hair neatly combed, her red coat over her arm: a little girl of seven. (1.159) |
Knowing that the Germans were so concerned with maintaining the purity of their ideal Aryan race of blond-haired and blue-eyed people, knowing that Eliezer’s little sister, a Jew, has blond hair blurs the racial distinctions and makes them seem arbitrary.
