Uses Of Pathos In Elie Wiesel's 'Night'

Although there are many different stories about the holocaust, Elie Wiesel's story is very vivid and full of the jarring reality of his experiences. He doesn’t hold back any of the cruelness and torment he was forced to endure as an adolescent. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses repetition, imagery, and symbolism to illustrate the deprivation of his former self during his traumatic experiences during his time in the Nazi work camp.

In the story night by Elie Wiesel gives a deep use of emotion using pathos to increase our understanding of the life changing event he went through throughout Auschwitz. Elie was hating the guards as he said “They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death” (Wiesel 19). They were escorting to the camp and Elie was getting mad at the judges being frustrated about all the new changes that were occuring. Pathos is used in this by the frustration that Elie is experiencing against the people escorting them into the train. Furthermore Elie has realized when his “eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without god, without man.” (Wiesel 68) Elie has been alone without anyone in Auschwitz even though

In the novel, Night, written and experienced by Elie Wiesel, rhetorical devices such as logos, ethos and pathos are used to expatiate the events in the story. Elie was just a child when the invasions commenced. This autobiographical novel consists of the story of Elie Wiesel and his family, primarily his father, as they fight through the treacherous nights. The rhetorical devices compare to the poem by Judy (Weissenberg) Cohen. Judy is also a survivor of the holocaust that speaks at the Holocaust Memorial in Toronto, Canada. This poem and the novel compare through their rhetorical strategies.

The Message of the Memoir Night Eliezer Wiesel writes, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish Holocaust survivor, an author, and a human rights activist. At the onset of the Holocaust however, Eliezer Wiesel was a thirteen-year-old, small-town-boy of Sighet, Transylvania who by all accounts was “deeply observant” (Wiesel 3). The Holocaust was a dark time in Jewish history in which Anti- Semitics; mainly the German Nazis led by Hitler, tried to exterminate the Jews. As an author, Eliezer uses an array of rhetorical appeals. Rhetorical appeals consist of pathos, logos, and ethos.

Do authors use figurative language to allow readers to go beyond the words and explore the depths of human experiences? In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the answer lies in the use of similes, imagery, and metaphors. The use of figurative language in Night clearly portrays the horrors of the Holocaust, and gives readers an understanding of what depths of inhumanity encountered during that period in history was like throughout his memoir. By combining metaphors, imagery, and similes, Wiesel draws connections with historical events like the Spanish Inquisition and the Babylonian Captivity, where religious persecution and invasion shaped the stories of those oppressed. By utilizing these literary techniques, Wiesel tells a story that both emotionally and

In the American memoir, Night, Nobel Peace Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel constructs a story about the horrific events he endured during the Holocaust. In the pages of this memoir, he portrays the life of Eliezer, a child born Jewish. In the later chapters of the book, Eliezer endures the tragic hanging of a pipel who lost his life for not giving up the names of the inmates that worked to sabotage the power plant at Buna, a forced labor camp in Germany. The guards forced Eliezer and his father to walk past the child as he hung from the gallows stuck between life and death. The death of the child signifies the death of Eliezer’s faith. The author used this position in the memoir to signify the end of the main character’s religious views, which makes this the climax of the book. The climax fits into the structure of the memoir at this point by staying consistent in word choice and advancing the plot further. The use of the appeals and tone also ties this scene into the plot. However, each translation utilizes these devices differently. The scholar’s translation focuses on ethos, logos, and a helpless tone. Marion’s translation uses pathos and a bitter tone. Marion’s version more effectively uses the appeals and tone because it conveys more emotion to the reader.

Elie Wiesel was once a very ordinary person and lived like anyone. Until the German Nazis took Elie's freedom, along with the freedom of millions of Jews. In the book, Elie reveals the harsh truth of what really happened during the Holocaust in the conditions of the concentration camp where he and his father were held. He describes the trauma he experienced that never left him the same. As a result, Elie is a dynamic character because he questions his faith, changes his attitude towards his father, and loses all hope in life.

A Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel shares his experience in Auschwitz-Birkaneau, one of Hitler’s concentration camps, in his autobiography Night. In the memoir, Wiesel utilizes the motifs: silence, survival, and responsibility to develop character, plot, and other literary elements.

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Literary Device Glossary: Night Metaphor Examples/evidence: "We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us.” (Page 25) Effect/purpose: An abyss didn’t literally open beneath them, this was said metaphorically to describe the hope lowering within the jews as time passed. ~ Personification Examples/evidence: " But it was all in vain.

Wiesel expertly uses pathos to make the reader feel guilt and remorse for a child during a hanging, “But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive. . . . For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes… That night the soup tasted of corpses.” (Wiesel 62). This is such a skillful example of pathos because it uses something that everyone can relate to, a child, which can also be a symbol of innocence and purity.

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the main character Eliazer goes through some major changes throughout the book. He starts out as a naive young boy in Singet who is mainly focused on religion to an uncaring hardy man who doesn't believe in god. Some major moments in the book that changed him from who is was to who he became was when the German Police first come and remove him from his house, when Eliezer experiences his first night at Auschwitz, when his father gets beat in the camp, when he encounters a French Girl that speaks to him, when he witness a child being hung, and when Eliezer's father gets sick, just to name a few. These moments in Eliezer's life changed him during the book.

The first activity that I chose to do, was to interview a character in the memoir, Night. The second activity that I choose, was to create a collage that represents the mode and the themes of this memoir. Many themes were portrayed throughout this memoir. The two activities I chose, relate to a variety of themes: the consequences of human judgement, loss of faith in God, father-son relationships, and loss of human freedom.

By Wiesel’s use of Pathos he strengthens the emotional side of the speech to assert the deeper thoughts and feelings during the Holocaust. The deeper emotions and grief are shown as Wiesel tells the audience, the humiliation he went through. “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation” (Wiesel 7). Wiesel uses Pathos to show the grief to his audience about

The Holocaust changed the lives of many. Those that survived have many terrifying stories to tell. Many survivors are too horrified to tell their story because their experiences are too shocking to express in words. Eli Wiesel overcomes this fear by publicly relaying his survival of the Holocaust. "Night", his powerful and moving story, touches the hearts of many and teaches his readers a great lesson. He teaches that in a short span of time, the ways of the world can change for the worst. He wants to make sure that if the world didn't learn anything from hearing about the atrocities of the Holocaust, maybe they'll be able to learn something from Elie's own personal experience. Usually, a person can internalize a situation better