Chapter 6 One passage that is interesting to me is, “He must have been trampled to death beneath the feet of the thousands of men who followed us” (Wiesel 63). That is a worse way to die, rather than getting shot. It is a lot faster and painless when someone gets shot than getting trampled to death which is very painful to have everyone stepping on you until you die which can be very, very slow. That poor kid should have kept going. The SS officers are letting all of the other men do the dirty work, so that they don’t have to shoot them. They were getting lazy and tired, but all of the prisoners were scared and didn’t want to slow down because they knew they would get killed whether by getting shot or getting trampled to death and they are the ones who did the killing. Another passage that is interesting is, “These words of encouragement, even though they came from the mouths of our assassins, did us a great deal of good” (Wiesel 68). I didn’t understand why they were encouraging the prisoners to keep going. They would have been more than happy to shoot anyone who…show more content… There are long and short paragraphs, long and short chapters. The shortest paragraph in this chapter is one sentence and an example is, “The snow continued to fall in thick flakes over the corpses” (Wiesel 66). Some paragraphs are really long and it would be inconvenient, but the longest one is like ten sentences or more. The shortest chapter was four pages and the longest is in the twenties. The structure of Night differs from chapter to chapter. Two vocabulary words that stumped me were bereaved and encumbrance. The first original sentence is, “He sat up and looked round him, bewildered, stupefied—a bereaved stare” (Wiesel 66). The last one is, “…to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival” (Wiesel 67). Bereaved is when one is really sad because one lost a loved one. Encumbrance is an
