How Does Eli Wiesel Use Descriptive Language In Night

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Eli Wiesel’s story of his experience in concentration camps in the book Night, the emotion in chapter 3 that Wiesel is trying to convey is dreary. Wiesel, who was once a light-hearted boy, loses any feelings he once had causing him to fall into a lifeless body. After being treated like animals and being scared of the unknown, Wiesel felt the world go dark, his “senses were numbed, everything was fading into a fog. We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self- defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (2). He uses descriptive language to portray his feeling of the now black world. He could no longer feel hopeful or even scared. When the guards shave his head and body, Wiesel sees that he “had become a different