Figurative Language In Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the memoir "Night" by Eile Wiesel, he takes us through his experience of the Holocaust and how he survived with only his father by his side. In the memoir, his purpose of writing this piece was to inflict on his targeted readers the bad crimes done to the Jews, during those three years in the concentration camps. He does this by having the strength to tell his perspective, relive the crimes, using figurative language to help readers better understand through scenes, and foreshadowing the title "Night under certain circumstances. Ellie's perspective is strongly influenced by him being a Holocaust survivor because he lived through traumatic moments that he will never forget. In the first part of the book he states his father's death and in …show more content…

stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father"(Wiesell10). The advice another Jewish prisoner gave Elie, after losing his faith and struggling to keep his father with him, everything in his eyes was another reason not to keep living. Elie Wiesel uses figurative language to make his writing more relatable to the reader, who could not imagine the horrific things he had seen. In chapter five of his memoir on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish prisoners still had faith in God, "Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over like trees in a storm" (Wiesel 67). Wiesel uses figurative language/imagery to help the reader imagine the thousands of prisoners in pain but still having faith in their God to say their prayers. Throughout the memoir "Night" Wiesel refers to the title because a lot of impactful moments happened during the night. In chapter three after the Jews got taken away from their families they had to spend their first night in the camps, "I shall never forget that night, the first night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed" (Wiesel 34). He felt the impact of the first night and knew the long journey he and his father would face the next three

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