The speaker comforts himself into believing that the tapping sound is a visitor who has come to see him.
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Answer:
the sentence is an object of a preposition. is that what you're trying to know?
Answer: It means an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances.
Explanation:
I would say isolation because Elie and his father are separated from his mother and 2 sisters so that he and his father go to the forced labour camp and his mother and sisters go to the gas chambers though the mother and one sister survive he does not see them again, at least not there. And seeing his father become helpless so that he must become his father's caregiver makes him resentful and then ashamed of his resentment.
