Rhetorical Analysis Of Night And Night

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.

In the novel Night, the author and protagonist, Elie, goes through change because of dehumanization and oppression. During World War II, Adolf Hitler wanted to abolish all Jews from society by murdering and putting them in concentration camps, an event known as the Holocaust. These camps held millions of Jews that were treated like dehumanized animals by the German police. Night is a novel written about the experiences about a boy, Elie Wiesel, who lived through the holocaust. He wrote Night in order to give a voice to those that were unable to do so of the events in the concentration camps. In Night, Elie Wiesel's faith was strong in the beginning of the novel, and started to decrease during his time at the concentration camp, and completely disappeared by the end of the Holocaust.

In the book “night” written by Elie Wiesel, the reader is able to catch a glimpse of the holocaust and how it dangerously impacted not only the Jewish, but the whole world. Written for everyone and anyone, “Night” is an emotionally draining book designed to help the reader understand just how devastating the holocaust was.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is about the Holocaust, the slaughter of 11 million people. Readers follow Elie from his home, in Hungary to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these camps, the Nazis beat and starve Elie and his father. In this book, Elie changed tremendously in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel changes in the concentration camps both emotionally and physically.

In the book night, the author uses many different kinds of tones but the tone that stands out to me the most is like scary.

Diction: In Night Elie Wiesel using diction to show the effects the Holocaust had on him and his fellow prisoners. Through the story Elie uses imagery to help the reader experience what is going on. The author uses strong language, but short sentences to move the reader. The book uses dialogue in almost every chapter in the book to help reader understand the characters.

Within the story Night, Elie Wiesel puts the reader into his perspective and takes them on a journey through his Holocaust experience. He deeply describes his moments in and out of concentration camps, death marches and cattle car rides using first person pronouns throughout the story. The use of first person really composes the reader to personally consider themselves as Wiesel and draws their attention to the story in order to create a superior reading experience. When using first person, Elie describes how his personality, emotional and mental feelings change during the course of the story. He utterly expressed how the constant demand to abide by the Nazis steadily dehumanized every individual prisoner.

Distinctively visual texts aim to manipulate the way we explore and interpret the images we see, thus affecting the way we make interpretations of the experiences we encounter and allows us to embody newfound various perspectives of the world.

During the 1930’s in Europe Jewish people were persecuted. As Hitler continued to rise to power, his hatred in the Jews penetrated through society.In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie discusses his experience of being a Jewish during that time period by narrating his transitions from being sent to live in the ghettos and being sent to multiple concentration camps. Through mapping these experiences he also shows the struggle of having faith in humanity and in God. In Night Elie uses different literary techniques: point of view, imagery and metaphor to display how witnessing inhumanity can cause someone to be dehumanized.

Language is a life-impacting object. Many types of languages are spoken around the world on a daily basis. Authors use the different types of language and literary devices to convey their message. Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night, takes the reader on a powerful journey with his choice of diction and the literary devices he uses. Two mechanisms Wiesel employs to create meaning are diction and repetition.

At a time when theres more light than darkness was en vogue, Paul Bogard tries to get his audience to let there be darkness at night. He persuades his audience thru the use figurative language and diction.

The novel “Night” was written by Elie Wiesel and is a memoir of his life during World War II. The book starts with his life living in Hungary with his family. It then tells of how they were taken away to concentration camps throughout the war. During Elie’s stays at the various camps you see the sacrifices he makes and how the experience changes him.

We were assigned to read chapters 3, 5 and 6. In chapter three we are introduced to the authors view on images. He feels that we put too much of an emphasis on images, to the extent where the written word is being ignored. I find this to be true, in this generation people are constantly glancing at images, let it be on their phones, tablets, magazines, newspapers, billboards etc. We put more time into visuals than the actual message itself. Reinke asked us, “What will we lose if we ignore books” (40). Personally I say A LOT!

The Holocaust was a genocide persecution and murder of six million Jews ran by Adolf Hitler. One survivor, Elie Wiesel, wrote the book Night. In Night, Wiesel shares his horrific unspeakable memories and experiences that has changed his life from being apart of the Auschiwitz concentration camps. Wiesel suceeds in having people, including myself, view the world in a different way than before. After reading the novel, I have realized that you should never say never, I should be thankful for the things I have, and you may have to go through something terribly bad before coming out glorious.

This then creates “irony and/or ambiguity” (Bang, 2001, pg. 25) due to the different natures when comparing the verbal text and images. Also present is counterpoint in space and time, used in the verbal text to show the passage of time throughout the picturebook – ‘But then one day’ (page 5), ‘A few days after’ (page 12), and ‘So now’ (page 19). I would have liked to included in these pages “pictures [which] can explore and play with [spatial dimensions] in limitless ways” (Bang, pg. 26) but was unsure how to achieve this within the images.