Rhetorical Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night

Put yourself in this position: you have a happy family, happy life, everything was picture-perfect. All of a sudden it was taken away from you. Furthermore, you go from a human equal to others to just a number tattooed on your forearm, meaningless treated like absolutely nothing. That's what Eli and many other victims went through, the Inferno and back, at least Eli made it through the nightmare. Consequently, others not as fortunate. The book Night by Elie Wiesel makes us come to our sense about this horrific event. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition, and diction to help us understand the tragic loss of humanity.
Elie uses tone to set off the mood. “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me...You’re killing your father...I …show more content…

Never.”(34) Repetition in this passage from the book is about Elie’s first night coming to the camp. How the concentration camp already had such a tremendous influence on the him the very first night he stayed. In this excerpt it reveals how Elie’s perspective of humanity is changed for good and how he may never more regain his confidence in mankind. However, it's understandable. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses tone, repetition, and diction to help us understand the tragic loss of humanity. Elie made a very noticeable display of how the holocaust just didn't effect physically, but mentally as well in his writings by using tone. It's caused dehumanization toward innocents which did no harm to deserve the lack of humanness which made them feel so little, he showed this by using diction to exhibit how great it had an effect. Repetition helped to register that nothing can help and take these memories away from all of the victims in this occurrence, but to come to the conclusion of this and realize this isn't something miniature in fact a truly truly massive concern that will hopefully never die and eternally will be remembered. No human should ever have to experience scarcity of humanity, what Elie and many others went through. The way Elie displayed tone, repetition, and diction in his novel Night fitted perfectly to make an

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