Similarities Between Night And I Too

Introduction:
It was once said that we all bleed the same color. Cultural differences play a big part in affecting a person's path in life just as in the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel and the poem “I Too” by Langston Hughes. Both authors experienced painful dark times during segregation and World War ll. Through the use of imagery and tone we will explore to compare both of the author's attitude towards their experience was shaped by the historical hardships in our world.

Imagery Body Paragraph #1
One way the authors reveal their attitude towards their experience is through imagery. In the novel “Night” the author says “I soon forgot him. I began to think of myself again. My foot was aching, I shivered with every step. Just a few more meters

and it will be over. I'll fall. A small red flame… A shot…Death enveloped me, it suffocated me. It stuck to me like glue.

I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. To break rank, to let myself slide to the side of the road…” The imagery and figurative language Elie uses reminds the audience that the conditions in the camps and the brutal, excruciating pain they go through on a daily basis is so bad to the point where death is freedom. Freedom from the beatings, freedom from pain, freedom from the ability to feel anything. Similarly Langston Hughes in his poem “I Too” uses imagery to express his attitude towards the segregation he was experiencing. In line one he writes “I am the darker brother. They send me to the kitchen to eat”. This imagery, though not as detailed as the novel, helps the audience feel what the author felt. Langston was sent to the kitchen to eat by himself isolated and lonely due to the shade of his skin. His words help lead the reader into feeling that he was less than the average man. There is imagery spread all throughout the

novel “Night” and helps the reader understand Elie’s attitude and point of view about Auschwitz. His using of figurative language further expresses how this period of time molded him as a person and was a very effective use of imagery. In a poem such as “I Too” the author can be limited to the amount of imagery he/she puts into the poem only being 18 lines rather than a whole novel. But, each author's use of imagery was necessary in helping the audience understand their feelings about their experience.

Tone Body Paragraph:
Another the authors reveal their attitudes about their experience is through tone.

From the writing a distinct attitude was portrayed in both pieces, their attitude towards their experience is very clear and this is the same in both pieces. Throughout the novel the author's attitude ranges from very selfless to revengeful to selfish to not wanting revenge at all. For an example at the end of the book Elieser states “And even when we were no longer hungry, not one of us thought of revenge. The next day, a few of the young men ran into Weimar to bring back some potatoes and clothes—and to sleep with girls. But still no trace of revenge.” From the authors experience in Auschwitz we can see that Elie sees that revenge will do nothing so he did one better and wrote this book to prevent history from repeating itself. In line 16-17 of the poem the author's tone is shown when he says “They'll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed”. Hughes has experienced discrimination in this poem and is he referring to his tormentor when he says that they'll “be ashamed”. Both authors have had people wrongly accused them and their attitude is about their situation is very bold and prominent. Both authors use first person to further magnify their tone when they discuss the the injustice of their experience which also helps the reader fully take on the experience as if they are a young Jew in Auschwitz and an African American

man.

Conclusion:
Just as it's said “We all bleed the same color” brings true meaning to our authors stories. Throughout our authors experience of segregation and World War ll we can see how their attitudes are reflected into their stories. By comparing these two pieces of writing we can now see that the novel had greater time to develop imagery and see how the tone changes. Though imagery was not strong in our poem the tone was fairly strong and clear in both