EASY POINTS 50 POINTS. Review Elie's thinking during the march: "We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had
transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than
the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth" (87).
Does the tone of this quotation seem hopeful or hopeless? Why? What do you think Elle is trying to say has
happened to the men mentally as a result of their experiences in the camps?