Any pieces of figurative language in this excerpt? (from the book thief pages 346-350) “i’ll never forget that day in auschwitz, the first time in mauthausen. at that second place, as time wore on, i also picked them up from the bottom of the great cliff, when their escapes fell awfully awry. there were broken bodies and dead, sweet hearts. still, it was better than the gas. some of them i caught when they were only half-way down. i shiver when i remember-as i try to de-realize it. i blown warm air into my hands, to heat them up. but it’s hard to keep them warm when the souls still shiver. god. i always say that name when i think of it. god. twice, i speak it. believe me when i tell you that i picked up each.”

In a 10-12 sentence response-style paragraph, explore the degree to which you agree or disagree with faulkner’s message. “i believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. he is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. the poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. it is his privilege to man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. the poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to him endure and prevail” (faulkner 773-775).