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How Does Elie Wiesel Use Imagery In Night

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Mia Layseca Ms. White English 9 Honors 14 March 2023 Night Essay The memoir Night is a devastating story of a boy’s experience during the Holocaust. At the young age of 15, Elie was completely stripped of any of his past life. He had to leave everything behind in order to survive. Elie, his family, and many others were at gunpoint and being forced to leave their entire lives behind. Everything they built for themselves, just gone. Everyone was forced out of their homes, into cattle cars, and transported to a place that was unimaginable. They were transported to the concentration camp known as Auschwitz. When they arrived, immediately, Elie and his father were separated from Elie’s mother and little sister. That is just the beginning of …show more content…

Elie saw his own father being hit. For his father, it must have been very difficult to stay positive during this time. Despite this, his father looked at Elie and lied to him in order to ensure that an optimistic mood was kept, even with all the darkness surrounding them. On the other hand, Elie knew his father was lying. Wiesel made sure the reader knew this by using imagery to illustrate what Elie saw, which was the red mark on his father's face. Therefore, Elie knew of the pain that his father endured but did not say anything to his father about it. He too wanted to pretend like everything was fine in order to help them survive. This is just one of the many examples of how Elie and his father depended on each other. That is why Weisel was trying to convey this specific message to the reader because if Elie and his father did not have the family relationship that they did, it was unlikely that they would have survived for so …show more content…

Throughout the memoir, it is seen that Elie and his father do everything for each other. This includes giving things like valuables or especially food to one another. However, this was not the case for every father and son. One way that this was seen is when another father speaks to his son by saying, "Meir, my little Meir! Don't you recognize m e ... Y o u ' r e killing your father... I have bread...for you too... for you too..." (101) During this scene of the book, everyone is fighting over bread. Now to them, that piece of bread was the only thing that was helping them survive. They had been in a cattle car for days on end with no food or water, in the freezing cold. Then a few pieces of bread are thrown in the mix of many victims and everyone turns into animals. This however was not the case for Elie and his father. They stayed behind knowing the dangers that could come if they tried to obtain the bread. On the other hand, the quote outlines another father son relationship. In this case, the father had obtained the piece of bread and was willing to share it with his son. However, his son was greedy and only cared about himself rather than caring for his own father. He tackled his father and secured the bread. Then, everyone else tackled him now that he had the bread. This situation was a lose, lose, for the father and son. Both of

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