Cause And Effect In Elie Wiesel's Night

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Cause and effect statements show when something positive or negative happens and the effect it has. An example of this is on page 77-78, when winter comes to Germany the prisoners don't have the right clothes to prevent freezing and because of this Elie gets frost bite on his foot. The cause would be not warm enough clothes and the effect would be Elie's frost bitten foot. Another example of cause and effect in the memoir is on page 24-28, when Elie and many other Jews are in the cattle cars on the way to the concentration camps, Mrs. Scächter had been separated from her family and experienced many scaring things which caused her to go crazy and scream she saw fire in the night. Cause and effect statements are an important style device to Wiesel's