Night By Elie Wiesel Analysis

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Elie Wiesel is a holocaust survivor and he has been through many obstacles, especially when he watched his own people being slaughtered in front of his own eyes. Throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, he makes the reader sympathize and mourn towards the Jews by using good mood and tone. Wiesel's tone was very mournful and serious. “And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes”(Wiesel 65) This is a very dark and serious tone. The Guards used death as a threat to maintain their authority and would not care how they did it. “In unison, the nooses were placed around their necks. "Long live liberty!" shouted the two men. But the boy was silent.”(Wiesel 64) This was right before he

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