Bradbury has a straightforward writing style that seeks to evoke a sense of wonder through two seemingly opposed concerns: the careful construction of mundane details and a sharp eye for vividly capturing imaginative flights of fancy. Combined, they create Bradbury's signature style, finding wonder in everyday life by using fantastic / unrealistic elements to highlight the vagaries of human nature. Often, this means the stories are built on simply constructed sentences --declarative, often distanced from the subject it describes - with dramatically timed lapses into a more florid, poetic writing style when a character comes to grips with a new experience, such as the rocket flight of "The Rocket".
Wiesel describes Yossi and himself as smiling, laughing, and happy. He describes those were selected as standing apart, abandoned by the whole world. Silently weeping. He cannot truly be happy when he sees his fellow prisoners have been doomed. The contrast also reminds the reader that there is a fine line between death and survival.
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The simple answer is also the most obvious one: he does not like his prison, as it is a prison. The less obvious answer is a little more tricky. He quickly rules out that he is not dead, but he fears in what condition he might be. He remembers all of the "vague rumors of the horrors of Toledo", and he starts to wonder if they were not rumors at all. Worrying that he would be left to die of starvation or worse
A seductive woman, of sorts.<span />
