"Here and there, the police were lashing out with their clubs: "Faster!" I had no strength left. The journey had just begun and I already felt so weak... "Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy-good-for-nothing!" the Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them, my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death." (Wiesel, 19)
The significance of this paragraph Elie has grown to know how to hate because of what the police have done to him. He feels like this because they enabled for him and his family to go through this tragedy that they are hugely to blame. His first glimpse of the treatment he'd receive because of his belief started with them and he still only feels connected to them through hatred. This is very relatable because most people would feel hate towards those who have greatly wronged them like the Hungarian police have.
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