Millions dead (USHMM, 2017), yet “luck” wraps its wings around this special survivor, Elie Wiesel, and Night is his story. Wiesel writes in Night about his time during the holocaust, from living in the “ghettos” of Transylvania, to getting rid of all personal belonging, only to be forced into the transferring truck, to then being forced to live in the concentration camps, whilst now under the persecution of the military, but also his fellow inmates. With specific stories from losing his family to the crematoriums, giving vivid imagery to his past, whilst still conveying his emotions, to having to go to the dentist. Although Elie Wiesel uses many other techniques in his Biography Night like metaphors, and symbolism, Wiesel’s most effective …show more content…
Wiesel is exceptionally talented at, reviewing an incident that occurred in the duration of his captivity, and responding with this cynical, sardonic response. He does this on multiple accounts, but one that really sticks out to me is how he talks about his time of postponing the removal of his gold cap he had encapsulated on his tooth, for if it would be taken it would be used for either more bullets or personal collection, it was eventually taken from him by another inmate wanting it for who knows what, for he does not mention what the crown would be used for, but he was in rewarded in return for extra ration in of food, until the person giving him the soup was transferred. “Two weeks later the poles were transferred to another camp. I had lost my cap for nothing.” (pg. 56). This technique supports his central idea of how life can change, like he had went from a family that had luxury items, to like nothing, where he had to give up his own crown, having it ripped out of his mouth, (while still conscious) with an unsanitary rusty spoon, for some extra soup, where he could’ve died from infection. For using this cynical retrospect just adds an another element to this story, of how he has this mocking like, this happened and I got nothing from it, just adding this morbid, depressing element tio his story. Another instance of this cynical retrospect is when he had his shoes …show more content…
One of the examples of this I can find is when he does this little flashforward taking a break from the book to be like, this exact same happened years later, and that's what he kinda says in this excerpt. He states that in the transferring wagons there would be these fights between the people over some crumbs of bread, and he was like years after the holocaust, these people had been freed, rescued, and they’re still acting like these savage animals, fighting for such small amounts that mean nothing. “Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. Our ship's passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the natives, who dove to retrieve them.” (pg. 100). He uses this a different central ideas that he has conveyed in my previous examples, this is something of dehumanization, the people have turned into people who fight over crumbs, something that will not quench their hunger, or coins that will buy them not even the cheapest thing in the market, but still somehow the concentration camps broke them down to such low creatures, and that's how Wiesel's technique, he shows the impact of how, even though years have passed since they’ve been realized they’re still acting like wild animals. Another Example of this technique is when he talks of how he couldn't forget the song his friend had played on the violin