What does Madame Schachters screams foreshadow?

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In her memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel uses different literary devices to illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. Foreshadowing is one of the most common. One of the examples of foreshadowing in Wiesel’s novel comes when Moishe the Beadle tells the people of Sighet about the atrocities that he witnessed being carried out by the Nazis against Jews in Galicia, and from which he managed to escape. This foreshadows the dire fate that awaits the Jews of Sighet. One more example of foreshadowing appears before Eliezer, his family, and the other Jews on the train to the concentration camp. Madame Schachter was a Jewish woman from Sighet who was deported in the same cattle car as Eliezer. She is considered crazy and annoying by the passengers riding with her on the train. She screams about a fire and about everyone being burned up, and her fellow passengers want nothing more than to silence her, thinking that she is hysterical. However, Madame Schachter’s vision of fire foreshadows the crematorium where people were sent, dead or alive, to be burned if they cease to be useful to the Nazi party.

Foreshadowing is also seen when Eliezer’s father, Shlomo, is selected as a weak one and therefore as someone to be killed. This foreshadows that his father is, in fact, growing weaker and will soon die.

Write a paragraph (4 sentence minimum) to respond to one of the following:

• Describe the conditions on the cattle train.
• Who is Madame Schachter? Describe her role on the cattle train and explain what is ironic about her vision.
• Define foreshadowing. How does Wiesel use foreshadowing in Chapter Two?

Wiesel used foreshadowing in the story of Mrs. Schachter by having her yelling about a fire. Of course, no one knew of what she was talking about, so they quieted her. She continues to yell later as well and so the young men gagged her. When they arrived at Auschwitz Mrs. Schachter was screaming about the flames and the fire. When the train stopped, everyone jumped out avoiding the strike of a stick, they thenk smelled the stench of burning flesh from the fire. Wiesel used foreshadowing in the story of Mrs. Schachter by having her yelling about a fire. Of course, no one knew of what she was talking about, so they quieted her. She continues to yell later as well and so the young men gagged her. When they arrived at Auschwitz Mrs. Schachter