1.) What is the end of everything? 2.) I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?

Explain the effect of the juxtaposition of the following lines that serve as a beginniing to the new section that begins on page nine: anguish. german soldiers-with their steel helmets and their deaths-head emblem. still, our first impressions of the germans were rather reassuring.