Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night. One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest. Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. Our ship's passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the "natives,” who dove to retrieve them. An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady: "Please, don’t throw any more coins!” "Why not?” said she. "I like to give charity . . .” Based on the details in this excerpt, what is the author’s primary purpose? to show how people everywhere need help to show how his opinion of humankind has changed to show that cruel behavior is not limited to only one situation to show that people may do things witho
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All through Chapter 7, Elie depicts the awful states of packed cattle cars that conveyed the Jewish detainees to Buchenwald. The detainees were grouped firmly into the autos and were not given any sustenance. A considerable lot of the detainees started to kick the bucket and SS officers advised the detainees to throw the dead bodies off of the vehicle at each stop. Elie additionally depicts how some of German nationals would toss bread into vehicle and Jewish detainees would fiercely battle for the nourishment. The detainees would brutally beat each other to get to the bread. Elie additionally reviews how the detainees needed to cluster by one another to warm themselves from unforgiving breeze. Toward the end, Elie specifies that toward the start of adventure, there were more than hundred detainees however just 12 endure the outing to Buchenwald.