Read this excerpt and answer the question.
With a start, we awoke and rushed to the window yet again. We had believed her, if only for an instant. But
there was nothing outside but darkness. We returned to our places, shame in our souls but feargnawing at us
nevertheless. As she went on howling, she was struck again. Only with great difficulty did we succeed in
quieting her down.
Around eleven o'clock, the train began to move again. We pressed against the windows. The convoy was
rolling slowly. A quarter of an hour later, it began to slow down even more. Through the windows, we saw
barbed wire; we understood that this was the camp.
Compare the sentence structures in the two paragraphs from the excerpt of Night. What effect does the author achieve
by varying sentence complexity?
The creation of simple sentences grabs the reader's attention
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