Megan Cooper . Instructor Klug. English 10B. April 21,

Metaphors are utilized all through the passage to allow Wiesel to make comparisons between certain object and his first night in the concentration camp which richens the tone and the effectiveness of the passage on the chapter and the novel as a whole. The utilization of a certain metaphor allows Wiesel to explain how his dreams were dashed once he came to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. It says in the text on line 10 “it turned my dreams to ashes”.The significance of the line is that Wiesel uses a metaphor to allow the reader to make a comparison between ashes and how ashes symbolize death;just like the death of his dreams and ambitions once he came there. The tone of the passage is richened as the author is able to imply a deeper meaning on certain words.Also, the usage of a particular metaphor allows Wiesel to more freely describe the first night inside the concentration camp. It says in the text on line 4 “one long night”. That line make a comparison between time and how it seemed to go so slowly during that first night inside the concentration camp. It could also be referring to all the nights and days spent in the camp as night is often referenced as when evil things occur;and that is what was occurring to Wiesel and his fellow Jewish people.The metaphor richens the tone and effectiveness of the passage as it is able to convey the message of the author in a seemingly educated and simplistic way.To conclude, a metaphor is a critical literary device and Wiesel has used it very well to richen the tone and effectiveness of the first passage in the

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off

Similarly, Elie deliberately uses several instances of foreshadowing as a warning that further develops the dehumanization theme. As the cattle car was approaching Auschwitz concentration camp, Madame Schächter screams, “’Jews listen to me,’ she cried. ‘I see fire! I see flames, huge flames’” (25 Wiesel)! Madame foreshadows the annihilation of millions of Jews being burned alive and dead within the crematoriums located at Auschwitz. Also, her hallucinations predicted the horrific fate of all the Jewish people, who would suffer

The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the author’s life story as a jew inside the concentration camps. He uses a lot of imagery and metaphor as well as other literary devices to show his feelings through each of his words so that we could feel what he felt and relate to it. Many of these sentences and imageries connects to one another and leave powerful messages for those who choose to seek for it.

One crucial quote that represents the struggles in Wiesel’s life is when the author narrates the line “Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children. Babies! Yes, i did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into flames. (Is it any wonder that ever since then, sleep tends to elude me?)(Wiesel 32).

When Weisel is using rhetorical fragments with his writing makes him want to keep the reader feeling suspenseful. In the end, rhetorical fragments and ellipsis helped make the syntax of Wiesel’s writing come through to help the reader understand all the tragic events that he had endured during the

The Holocaust. This book is a must-read for many English classrooms as it is a very deep book that shows many examples of paradigm shifts, and it also shows how characteristics of people change over time. It shows the Jewish side of the holocaust and the treatment that they received from the Germans, who were less than hospitable. The story focuses on Elie Wiesel, his father, and the Jews of the camp. There were many times that they were dehumanized in the story, and they affected Elie’s mindset in ways that stayed with him long past his time in the camps.

Vivid descriptions sprung out of in every page of Wiesel’s book. For example, Wiesel asked himself, “Was I still alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women and children were being burned and that the word kept silent? (32)”

He was successful in making his points with his struggles in faith and existence of evil in mankind, and how astonished he was that the world could be so silent as to what was going on. While many of us have a hard time understanding what the Holocaust was like, Wiesel’s story is a gruesome insight as to what really went on during the atrocity. Many scenes are significant; one of the most significant would be the quote, “Look at the fire! Look at the flames! Flames everywhere…” (pg. 26) followed by, “In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh” (pg.

The jews were treated like livestock with no compassion or concern the Nazis act as the herders, only interested in the livestock and what they can collect from the “animals”. Eliezer is forced to run through the snow famished and freezing while traveling to the next camp and being harassed by SS officers hollering hellish insults like “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!.” (85) This quote displays the realness of the Holocaust and how Jews were assumed to be less than the prejudicial Nazis party. The Holocaust left those who physically survived the genocide to suffer, even after World War ii ended the survivors were left with severe mental illnesses such as PTSD due to the suffering and cruelty while in combat. This type of horrifying event motivated Elie Wiesel to write about this event and knew that if he were to get out, that he would write the truth about what was going on. This is to make sure that it was not swept under the rug and wouldn’t be forgotten along with the Nazis intentions. After what this era has put himself and others through they knew that they never would forget this and it would be a part of each and everyone, regardless of the victim’s opinion. Elie shows this internal conflict the victims suffer by starting with the question of why; “Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand

Throughout the events of Night, Wiesel uses word choice and diction to describe the effect of the Nazi’s vicious torture on the Jews. This is very clearly seen as Wiesel describes only his first couple of minutes at Auschwitz and Birkenau, “A truck drew close and unloaded its

Adolf Hitler had a plan to exterminate all European Jews. There was approximately 9.5 millions Jews living in Europe in 1933. On January 30, 1933 Hitler started his extermination by rounding up all European Jews and sending them to concentration camps. Hitler believed the Jews were responsible for the lost of World War 1. Even though the Jews had nothing to do with the lost of World War I, Hitler wanted to make them pay. Dehumanization is the process of depriving someone of human qualities and attributes. The dehumanization process the SS officers enforced on the Jews left many of them dead or silent if they survived. At the concentration camps, they were to be stripped of all identification. By the time the concentration camps were liberated in 1945, over 6 million European Jews were killed inhumanely. Elie Wiesel, who was a survivor of the Holocaust, recalls the horrific experiences he and his fellow Jews had to go through in his book Night. Before the Jews were killed, the SS officers dehumanized the Jews by making them suffer through violence, humiliation, and horrible living conditions. Those horrific experiences made Wiesel speak up for the voiceless, and to make sure the Holocaust was not forgotten.

Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a line of poetry, for example, the first stanza repeats the word “There.” The author may have employed this repetition to emphasize to what the author sees as reality, or to emphasize further his point.

An anaphora is the repetition of words at the beginning of lines, emphasising the importance of them. At the beginning of the two last lines, the words “alcohol, you are my” are repeated.

First of all, in the context of his speech Wiesel targets his audience effectively; it is authorities and governors like the President Clinton and Hillary Clinton in the White House. They are challenged and compromised to fight in order to stop the atrocities against innocent people without faith. Authorities are called to work toward the human rights. The author is grateful for his rescue from the concentration camp. He uses words like “profound and abiding gratitude” to emphasize the value of being saved by militaries. Wiesel reports facts to his audience and he adds the word “indifference”, which is constantly repeated in his speech. Again, the