Explain the significance of the following quotation. what does the quotations show about elie’s transformation? “i now took little interest in anything except my daily plate of soup and my crust of stale bread. bread, soup – these were my whole life. i was a body. perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. the stomach alone was aware of the passage of time” (52).

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.