Night- Elie Wiesel
"... She looked into my eyes. I felt that she wanted to say something but was choked by fear. For a long moment she stayed like that, then her face cleared and she said to me in almost perfect German:
"'Bite your lip, little brother... Don't cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on. The day will come, but not now... Wait. Grit your teeth and wait..."'
Many years later, in Paris, I was reading my paper in the Metro. Facing me was a very beautiful woman with black hair and dreamy eyes. I had seen those eyes before somewhere. It was she." (Wiesel 51)
Later on in the book it continues back to present date. So the jump from present to future back to present counts as an inductive leap, but I then looked a little closer. This excerpt advanced the plot of my novel. The girl says that later on their day will come for their revenge, but according to history the Jews never did get their 'revenge.' Since this book is based on real events it should follow the true happenings. It changed the relationship between these two characters. She might have saved his life; if he had taken his rage out then he could have been dead. But it then created complications because the Jews continued to suffer anyway.
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