Asked by berlanda

Read the excerpt from chapter 7 of Night.

One day when we had come to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest.

What is the connotative meaning of the underlined word in the excerpt?

a lavish event
a humiliating sight
an unexpected happening
an entertaining performance

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
a humiliating sight

The word "spectacle" here conveys a shameful, degrading scene — the desperate men fighting over crumbs — that the worker watches with detached interest.