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Examples Of Foreshadowing In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the book Night, Elie Wiesel uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery to show the theme of fear. There are several times throughout this book that Elie promotes this theme. Some examples of this are how Elie foreshadows fear when Moishe the Beadle warns everyone about what happened to him in a camp, when Elie uses symbolism to show that the lady screaming “fire!” was really talking about how people got burned in the camps, and how he uses his own point of view to show how bad these events that occurred were. All of those things help show that the theme of fear is in the book Night. One literary technique that Elie Wiesel uses to show the theme of fear is foreshadowing. An example of this is on page 6 of the book. One this page Moishe is explaining the horrible things that happened to him while he was in a camp. Moishe tried to warn the whole town of the danger, but they do not listen to him. This event shows foreshadowing because it is a very obvious sign of what fear Elie is going to have later in the book. Another example of foreshadowing in this book is when the lady on the train kept screaming “fire!”. This event foreshadowed how …show more content…

One example of this is when the lady on the train kept yelling “fire!”. She continued to say she saw fire, even though nobody else saw this. Everyone on the train thought she was crazy. This woman was very afraid that she might be burned by the fire she saw. I think that this event could symbolize the fear that everyone had during the Holocaust. Another example of symbolism in this book is all the dead bodies laying around in the end of the book. Towards the end of the book there are lots of bodies lying around that have not been disposed of. I think that this event could symbolise how the people in the camps that were still alive had lost all of their humanity. This can cause the reader to have a feeling of fear when they read the book

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