Optimistic. 

                    Chapter four

                                “Our two cups were still half full.”  (page 33)

Wiesel starts off the chapter with this quote. It impressed me, I would have never thought he would use this expression rather than the cups being half empty. I find this incoherent because he is a very sad, lonely and depressed man who sees the bad rather than the good in life. Seeing the cup half full instead of half empty shows that maybe he is not as pessimistic as I thought he was. But then again he contradicts my beliefs by stating that all men kind despise him: "she'll hate me, I thought. It is unavoidable" (page 35) this quote is a foreshadowing, because then shows us an example of this with a man he met in a ship. They had a long conversation about death and its relationship to the sea. Wiesel states that "knowing the fact he had thought about death" (page 37) made him [Wiesel] feel closer to him. This scene concludes by a final confession made by the man Wiesel met: ""You must know this," he finally said. "I think I'm going to hate you". (page 39). Again, Wiesel is right, its easy for people to hate him, but maybe its not even hate, maybe its just fear or lack of understanding. 

Through out this chapter, the death subject is again touched.  Wiesel explains how the sea brings him thoughts of death and how he: "at first had a hard time getting used to the ides that ... [he] ... was alive" (page 40). This I find hard to believe. How is it possible that a man who passed through a great deal of trauma and pain is sick of life instead of thankful? How can he think so much about death when he is a survivor? It just doesn't seem right to me.