1st journel on Night

“The fire. The furnace! Look over there! . . .”

This quote takes place on the train to the concentration camp. A woman who had become mad from the loss of her son kept screaming about a fire and a furnace that would kill all of them. Two people on the train beat her till she would be quite. This is a very interesting quote because they later find out about the crematory in witch Jewish, Gypsies, Homosexuals and other people of different religion and race are being turned to ash. This reminds of the beginning of the book when the people ignore the fact of the German troops are coming. They said similar things to the war will end before they get this far and later they will just stay near the capital and main cities and not come here. This blindness to see the truth is also seen on the train with the mad woman who screams of the furnace. They hear a warning and ignore it instead of excepting or considering it. Just like the man who escaped from the SS and tried to warn the people years in ahead about the Nazis. They rather say that they are mad and believe what they want to believe.