Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the excerpt from “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel repeats the phrase, “Never shall I forget,” throughout the entire passage. In the third sentence, Wiesel states, “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” He was traumatized by the experience of seeing little children being sent off to be killed and burned, and witnessing the smoke of the fire that burned those children. That was his first time ever seeing such horrible conditions, and he vividly remembers how the children were taken from their mothers and killed, he states he will never forget. The word choice he uses gives the reader an idea of how horrible the holocaust was for Jewish people, it makes