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Mrs. Long asking what are you looking for today
When I wanted Leaves of Grass or Alfred North Whitehead.
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the french girl is a woman who encourages elie to remain strong and she is jewish, nice, kind & thouughtful & years later, (elie) he runs into her on a metro in paris.
This passage is meant to invoke a sense of national unity towards a common enemy. Wars are often seen as uniting in the sense that they bring people in a nation together.
It means dont try and make a sentence look pretty. If it doesnt appeal to your target then it doesnt appeal to them and you lose them making your writing boring.