Answer:
"So what? It's not lethal..."
Explanation:
Elie's father attempts to downplay the significance of the decree by telling his son, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal . . . "
so the reason why an author would expand all that is because of history we had to know everything about the history of the Americas so we had the right religion we where before anything happens and we also had to know how they behaved to see how we had improved
Persuasive Devices - Think debates. People will use the art of persuasion to make their ideas appealing to the audience. It applies the same way here. The author will use persuasive devices to make their ideas known to the reader and make them appealing.
People choose to escape because they think that if you escape you would feel refreshed, and start a new page.