What was madame schachter premonition

What stares back at Elie at the end of the novel? Schachter in the train? Because she mentioned the flames on the way to the first camp, and she was right about the fire. Several months after Moshe the Beadle and the other foreign Jews were deported, what happens to life in Sighet?

The Jews had to get out and climb into lorries. They were told to work dig huge graves. Gestapos killed them when they were done. Madame Schachter screams because she is going mad scared. She is put in a cattle car with her son after accidentally being seperated from the rest of her family.

Does Madame Schachter die? Madame Schachter: A woman of about fifty with a ten year old child. On the train ride to Auschwitz, she starts to lose her mind. Schachter gone crazy? If her husband and son had been taken, how could she possibly know about the fire?

Even if they were allowed to send notes to her they wouldn't talk about the horrifying elements of the camps because the Nazis prohibited them from talking about it. I think for that reason her warning had to come from God because there was no other way of her knowing of that information. I don't necessarily agree with your statement about her having prior information because if her husband and son were taken before her, shed have no information about their whereabouts.

I do agree with what you said about the Jews remaining ignorant to different warnings. At first I thought that Madame Schachter was simply hallucinating when she called out that she saw flames.

I thought that because of the cattle car's poor condition, she wouldn't be in her right mind. I now however believe, after reading more into the book, that Madame Schachter's proclamation was given to her by God. Seeing as this book is about Wiesel's test with his faith, it would make since that God gave the warnings to the people. Thinking back to Moshe's warning and Madame Schacter's being done close together, the situations are too coincidental to not be from God.

This incident is connected to Wiesel's faith because it shows how his faith overtime was decreasing little by little. Overtime we see Elie loosing trust in God, and I think that proves even more that Madame Schachter's warning was from God because God was testing Elie's faith from pre-deportation to his time in the camps. I think Elie included this in his memoir because it was poignant as a woman had a premonition that no one believed, but also because he might have been upset that he didn't listen to her.

Such a great response to the questions. You had everything on point. Good job. I agree with you. I also thought that it was a hallucination then turned to prophet. I agree that Madame Schuchter's visions were from God, but I also believe that they are one of the only things that allowed Elie to hold onto his faith. He very clearly still had a bit of a belief in God, and does not say things forsaking God like the others, so he still believes a bit. I believe that what Madame Schachter saw was a divine warning.

I believe this because Elie says he had seen her before, and mentions nothing about her being taken with the Hungarians who took Moshe the Beadle, so she could not have seen any of the crematories before. She also begins to see them again once they get closer to Auschwitz, so she very clearly knows they are coming.

I believe Elie included this because it is one of the things that allowed him to keep his faith. When he saw the smoke, he looked back at Madame Schachter, as if he knew that she had seen a vision of it, and that it couldn't have been from anyone else but God. I think it also reminds him also that God did not forsake them, because he provided them with multiple opportunities to escape, but he and the other Jews were too blinded by optimism to heed the warnings. I like the vocabulary you used but I don't agree with the point that you made about Madame Schachter allowing Elie to keep his faith but I see how you'd get that.

The fact that you mention the way that Elie looks back is a refresher, I had almost forgotten about it. At first i thought Schachter was screaming because she had imagined a death so horrible while she was in the cattle car that she had lost touch with what was reality opposed to her imagination due to the intensity of whatever she had seen in her head.

As the story progressed i began to think that maybe Schachter had actually had a vision of what was waiting for the prisoners at Auschwitz and as she screamed about how she saw the flames she was trying to warn the others in the cattle car but instead of believing her everyone assumed her as crazy. I think it was included in the story because it was another warning that the Jews either ignored or watered down. I think this incident is linked to Elies faith because at this point he had not yet completely lost his faith.

But when discovers what the woman saw was true and he learns of all of those burned in the fire, he loses his trust in faith and "watches his God die. I like how you gave your opinion on what you thought she was see and how your thought evolved. I agree with you about her vision. I do agree that she was a warning. I think Madame's strange incident was a prophetic vision. I think God or Madame's husband who had been taken to these camps before sent that vision to Madame to warn her of what was coming.

Wiesel chose to include this incident in his memoir to show how the Jews were warned ahead of time of what was going to happen, but simply decided to ignore the warnings. This incident was linked to Wiesel's faith because the Wiesel was devoted to his religion and one could assume God was trying to help Wiesel out.

While I agree that Madame had a prophetic vision, I'm not quite sure how this vision could have been sent to her from her husband, as the only way I could see that happening iis if he were dead, which was not specified in the book thus far.

I agree that this was a prophetic vision sent from God. I don't think that her husband would have been able to send her a vision because that is not possible for a human to do. There would be no way for Madame Schachter to talk to her husband or for her to know that information herself. Franek went on the marches and would torment him, his father eventually made him give the crown up and letting Franek pull it with a rusty spoon.

How did Elie say the soup tasted the night the pipel young servant boy was hanged? Elie said the soup tasted like corpses. Then two men and the pipel were hanged. Wiesel said the soup tasted like corpses. Because Elie can never remove the image of that beautiful young boy dying at the end of the rope, his senses are clouded with the stench and taste of death. Thus the soup tastes like corpses, because his senses are overpowered on every level.

In Night, the soup tastes better after the first hanging because Elie is still alive. He can return to the bunks and eat. The actual taste does not matter. Soup is a symbol of health, fitness and nourishment. Symbolism: Drinking and eating in life represent good health. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis May 31, What happened in Night by Elie Wiesel? What is the main idea of the book night?

What is the plot of night? What does the book night teach us? Why is it important to read night? Some men and women begin to flirt openly on the train as though they were alone, while others pretend not to notice. After days of travel in these inhuman conditions, the train arrives at the Czechoslovakian border, and the Jews realize that they are not simply being relocated. A German officer takes official charge of the train, threatening to shoot any Jew who refuses to yield his or her valuables and to exterminate everybody in the car if anybody escapes.

The doors to the car are nailed shut, further preventing escape. On the third night, she begins to scream that she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car. Although no fire is visible, she terrifies the Jews in the car, who are reminded that they do not know what awaits them. Finally, she is tied up and gagged so that she cannot scream. Her child, sitting next to her, watches and cries. The prisoners on the train find out, when the train eventually stops, that they have reached Auschwitz station.