Elie Wiesel Use Of Irony In Night

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Elie Wiesel is able to appoint the role of an antagonist to almost anybody, he does so on page sixty-seven of Night relaying the allegory of malice within a single man’s actions. It says, sometime around the middle of the book, victims of the concentration camps were on their way to the center of Germany. One of the workmen had decided to throw a piece of bread into the wagon the men were in. The men became violent for this piece of bread and fought to the death for some measly crumbs. ( Pg 67 Wiesel ). It later explains the workmen took a “spectacle” in the conflict. The word spectacle means a show or performance with a visual impact. To compare a tragedy like that to a splendid performance makes an incredibly abominable metaphor. The author