Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night . Meir Katz remained on the train. The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself. The author’s main purpose in this excerpt is to show that

The excerpt says there had been about 100 people in the wagon, but only 12 were left by the end of the ride. This stark contrast emphasizes how deadly the journey was and how few survived. The author and his father were among the survivors, but the passage’s main point is the scale of the deaths, not that they were safe.

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