Literary Devices Used In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

In his interview with “the Paris Review”, he talks about “Night” and what it really means to him,” Night is not a novel, it’s an autobiography. It’s a memoir. It’s testimony “(Wiesel) all his written work ends up having a connection to his first novel, writing “night” made him want to share more of himself with his readers. Although throughout his novel Wiesel leave us wanting more. We feel as if there are details in his life that he holds back from his readers, either because they mean to much and he wants to feel a sense of privacy or because they are still too vivid in his mind to write

“But when certain visitors came, we were as if driven by an inward, secret panic

by authors to keep the reader more engaged in the novel. A great use of literary devices brings richness, clarity, insight and understanding of the text. Foreshadowing is used to warn or indicate an event in the future, extended metaphor is used to compare the difference between two things which continues throughout a series of sentences . Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite what is

Night is a book written by Elie Wiesel. In this book Wiesel tells about his experiences in the Holocaust. Wiesel was only twelve years old when the Holocaust first affected him. Early on Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister. Him and his father were then moved from camp to camp having to endure harsh conditions. Together they both saw terrible things that they will never forget. Many conflicts in The Holocaust changed both Wiesel and his father. The two factors that affected Wiesel the most was him having to indirectly face the entire Nazi society and his believe and trust in God.

The Germans were pushing the Jewish community towards death to see who survived. The Passover ended, “the curtain rose” (Wiesel, 2008) and the Germans “arrested the leaders of the Jewish community” (Wiesel, 2008). Elie states, “from that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun” (Wiesel, 2008).

Night by Elie Wiesel was heart shattering; The experiences Elie had, undoubtedly affected him and his perception of the world. Elie Wiesel was put through unbearable oppression; torture, starvation, and extreme labor, simply because he didn't fit the nazi standards. Due to his hostile environment he struggled with many things including his faith in God. Throughout the novel Weisel described countless acts of violence between men, causing him to question humanity, and whether or not humanity was present. The theme of Night is inhumanity as described by the pain and vulgarness towards him, along with Weisel losing his faith in God, but also humanity.

I think the purpose for Wiesel writing Night was to tell others about what actually happened during the Holocaust and how he survived. It's important for future generations to be informed about what happened during the Holocaust. If the Holocaust happened again, we could use the information we read in Night and learn from his experience. For example, when Elie said "Hunger was tormenting us; we had not eaten for nearly six days," (page 114) we now know to try not eating all of your bread and soup at once because there might be times when you go days without eating.

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, literary devices are used to create a feeling that you're present and spectating the experiences Elie and his family have gone through. Using literary devices such as repetition and metaphor emphasize the dehumanization the Jews have gone through. The Jews are no longer familiar with themselves when looking at the mirror. All throughout the novel questioning, personification, imagery, and symbolism get used. All of these literary devices have shown the dehumanization that the Jews have gone through.

6. Find an example of a simile and explain what is being compared. (2 points) An example of a simile is when the author wrote, “It was a fast-motion fill-up, like pouring myself all at once into a too-tight vessel.” This simile is talking about his experience or how he felt when he took over the body of a human.

The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea" (Coleridge pt. II, st. 9).

This quote is comparing Scout to a popping cork. This comparison is made to show how abruptly Scout crashed and fell onto to the pavement. This simile uses like to make a comparison this helps the readers understand how quickly everything had happend; futhermore, it also shows how fast the tire was moving causing the impact to be like poping a cork, sudden and

‘My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it’ (Page 20)

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief--oh, no!--it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night . . . the terrors distracted me. (122)

Imagine a ‘disease’ so contagious that with the slightest wrong move, you could get it. What could this be? The flu may fit this description, but surprisingly, it’s madness. If one considers everything they do as the right choice and can’t differentiate between right and wrong, then they have become mad. In Macbeth, it demonstrates how there resides madness inside of us, and we all have this potential to lose control of it. Only if it is permanently released, will it turn into something horrible. One may think that people only go mad on rare occasions, but the truth is we are often in the same situation, and “[these fits are] momentary; upon a thought” (Act 3, Scene 4, Line 65) these people will return back to normal. Though this madness occurs

“A simile is a comparison of two things using like or as. You compared the rookie to a bump on a log,” she explained.