Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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The memoir and autobiography, "Night" is a book about the holocaust through the eyes of Elie Wiesel who was able to surrvive it all. By the use of different writing strategies such as mood he was able to develop a central idea of the loss of dignity. In the beginning of the book when all the Jews were taken to the concentration camps Elie Wiesel sets a mood of emptiness by describing how all the Jews became equal. He says, "Our clothes were to be thrown on the floor at the back of the barrack. There was a pile already. New suits, old ones, torn overcoats, rags. For us it meant true equality: nakedness." (page 35). This first quote describes how all Jews became the same. As they were all left naked it didnt matter what job they had, how smart

Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel
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The pungent stench was unbearable for Elie's father could no longer move. All that could be heard were the painful moans of the sick and dying. All the strength had faded from his old, wizened body. The end was upon him. This scene from Night by Elie Wiesel describes one of the many conflicts he faces as a Jewish prisoner in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
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In the book Night the author uses repetition to create a tone in the passage, and that tone the author is trying to create is sadness. Elie shows sadness/disbelief in the book when he realizes that he might lose his life in the concentration camp. In the book we realize the author is using a phrase over and over again(repetition)to show a tone in the book, and the phrase he uses to show the tone is “Never shall I forget”. He uses the phrase and thinks back to things he would never forget because he realizes he might die in the concentration camps and this starts to create the tone of sadness. On page 34 it said “I thought: This is what the antechamber of hell must look like.
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