Elie said, "I anxiously thought of my father, who was at work. But I was glad nevertheless. To watch the factory go up in flames - what revenge! [...] We were not afraid. [...] If only [the raid] could have gone on for ten times ten hours..." (Wiesel).

Q: What did Elie mean by this? Why would he be glad that the concentration camp was being bombed even though many people would have died? Was this a sign of hope? Explain all your answers.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination