Dramatic Irony In Night By Elie Wiesel

The entire novel Night itself is actually an allusion or a symbol. Night refers to the darkness or the loss of religion throughout the novel. This is from Eliezer, himself, losing his religion throughout the novel and letting the darkness of suffering from the Nazi’s overcome his faith. Eliezer has no remorse for others anymore in the novel and this includes his father. In the novel, the prisoners from the camp are forced to run from the red army that have slowly been gaining on the Nazi’s. Eliezer and his father have to run for miles upon end in the snow without any shoes, food, or rest the entire time. This is when Eliezer realizes that if he leaves his father behind when he becomes to slow that he will survive even if his father doesn’t.

In the novel ‘’Night’’ Eliezer survives from Auschwitz and surprisingly almost dies from food poisoning.The irony in this is that he could of died many ways at Auschwitz but ultimately almost dies from food poisoning.That is also a form of situational irony meaning that the situation turns opposite of what you expect.Another example of situational irony in’’Night’’ is when Chlomo Wiesel makes a remark about the yellow Jewish star,mocking it by asking if its lethal,but wearing the yellow star is what kills him in the story.In this essay I’ll be giving you more three more examples of irony throughout the novel ‘’Night’’.

Elie uses few examples of irony in chapter five. An example of situational irony that he used was when Elie and his father decided to escape from the hospital with the others from the unit. In this chapter Elie says, “I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians, two days after the evacuation” (Wiesel 82). This situation is ironic because before they decided to evacuate, Elie had heard that the patients left behind were going to die from the building being blew up. Instead of this happening, those who were left behind ended up getting freed. Elie uses the quote, “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish

Elie Wiesel has experienced a horrible tragedy. When he repeatedly says over and over “Never shall I forget…” he emphasizes his fear of what he has seen. He drills into the reader how traumatized he is. This creates sympathy and makes the reader feel worse for Mr. Wiesel. Dramatic irony gives the reader an advantage over the characters. This form of irony is where the reader knows something that the characters do not. “(Poor father! Of what then did you die?)” (page 11) During this scene in the book Elie's father has given the news to the other Jews that they are all required to wear the yellow star. His father said “‘ The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…’” (page 11) This is ironic because the star is what killed nearly all of the Jewish people. Hate killed a countless number of innocent people because of their beliefs. This is the dramatic Irony. Everything that Elie Wiesel uses to create his autobiography makes it more that just a page taught

Foreshadowing is a vital ingredient to any suspenseful story. It hints at the idea that something is off-kilter, without ever revealing exactly what that something is. This leaves readers with an uneasy feeling about the plot, but they can’t quite figure out why. Because of that suspicious feeling, readers are left with a burning desire to find out what happens on the next page. Foreshadowing can be achieved many different ways, such as through eree names, unpleasant conversations, and odd occurrences.

The appeal to emotion is the strongest by far. It seems almost impossible for a reader not to cry at the words of Wiesel. Elie paints a portrait of life in the camp, which included hours of back-breaking labor, fear of hangings, and an overall theme throughout the book: starvation. His vivid description of a child being hanged, how he was still alive, “struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes”, truly captures the ghastly occurrences of the death camp. His own discussion of how he had lost faith in a God, and how other sons were leaving or even beating their fathers with no care enlightens the reader to the true despair that surrounded the people that inhabited these camps. Also, his description of himself in a mirror as “a corpse” that “gazed back at me” installs in the reader the overwhelming sense of how this event so completely ravaged the human soul.

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. An example of foreshadowing Wiesel exercises is when he uses Moshie the Beadle to introduce the kind of person he was before and after his experience in a labor camp. Moshie’s suffering foreshadows his and his family’s outcome. Moshie had managed to escape and return to Sighet

Foreshadowing is to show or indicate an action to be coming. Although the story is centered around Samuel, it is actually told by the passengers who witness the turn of events of Samuel and his friends Alfred,

There are good examples of verbal and situational irony in Elsie Wiesel's memoir Night. Verbal irony occurs when words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant. It is grimly ironic when, after the Jews are ordered to wear yellow stars, Elise’s father says, "The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it..." The statement is ironic because that is precisely how Elise’s father died. The wearing of the yellow star was one step on the path to the concentration camps and almost certain death. After almost a year in the camps, Elise’s father dies from dysentery at Buchenwald.

Figurative Language in “ Night” The book night by Elie Wiesel has a lot of figurative language in it; almost all of the figurative language used has its own significance and gives you more information on how bad life was when you were a Jew in the 1940’s. “There are eighty of you in the wagon,” added the German officer. ”If anyone is missing. You'll all be shot, like dogs…”

Irony, a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. Throughout Night there is use of situational and verbal irony. This use of irony keeps the reader interested. The use of irony causes the reader to know things that the characters often are not aware of.

The Holocaust was a horrific time period when over six million Jewish people were systematically exterminated by the Nazi government. Throughout this period, the Jews were treated particularly inhumane because the Nazi viewed their ethnicities as a disease to humanity. Dehumanization is a featured theme in Elie Wiesel’s novel about the Holocaust since he demonstrated numerous examples of the severe conditions endured by the Jewish people. The nonfiction story Night by Elie Wiesel focuses on inhumanity and reveals human beings are capable of committing great atrocities and behaving cruelly, when such actions are condoned by society, peer pressure, and ethical beliefs. Elie Wiesel uses literary devices to produce a consistent theme of inhumanity.

A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew.

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men is one of the greatest pieces of American literature to ever be composed. This story tugs at the reader's emotional strings, and convinces the reader to provide undevoted attention to its pages. Steinbeck made history when he composed this novella, and this paper tells of a literary device he used to make it so wonderful. This device is foreshadowing, a technique used to give clues about future events. Steinbeck’s use of foreshadowing is arguably the best example there is in the literary word, and the way he uses it makes the story great.

War traumatizes men by stripping them of their humanity and transforming them into living corpses. Eliezer begins his life as a free man by indulging himself to an intemperate amount of food. His binging results in food poisoning, and he recovers in a hospital for several weeks. When Eliezer finally confronts himself in the mirror, he does not see himself. Although he survived the war physically, his soul died from the suffering and carnage he experienced and endured. This image of himself reminds him of how much he has lost—his faith, his family, and his life. Therefore, the harsh and demanding conditions of war create soul-less humans, or living