How Does Elie Wiesel Use Imagery In The Book Night

The following three authors, Elie Wiesel, Santha Rau, and Kimberly Blaeser wrote memoirs or autobiographies. They did this to keep history from repeating itself, to show personal growth and its relation to one's identity, and to provide reasoning for one's educational values.

To start with, In the book Night, Elie Wiesel makes imagery a priority in writing his memoir to stain the minds of readers with the unfortunate events that took place in the holocaust to prevent history from repeating itself. In the memoir, Elie Wiesel spends a portion of his life at a concentration camp. In the camp, inhumane actions were at an all time high. Two men and a young boy were arrested and prepared to be hanged in the middle of the camp, while prisoners were

In this portion of the book it is easy to imagine the nooses around the necks of the men and boy. Because readers can so clearly see the devastating scene, they will have a hard time forgetting about the brutal, unfortunate actions that took place during the Holocaust. Another time Elie Wiesel uses imagery is while the people of his neighborhood are being taken away to the concentration camps. People had left their houses along with their least important

In the short story ``By Any Other Name'', Santha Rau talks about her childhood, going to a school with a majority of English students and teachers. On the first few days of school Santha and her sister began to realize how their Indian culture made them different then their peers. The moment of realization was during lunchtime: “The children were all opening packages and sitting down to eat sandwiches. Premillia and I were the only ones who had Indian food.” (Rau 10) In this quote from the short story we can tell by the way Rau phrased the feelings of her younger self that she wants readers to be able to comprehend and sympathize for the unsettling feelings she went through as a child. We can deeply understand the mood Santha presents. Her being uncomfortable eating indian food around her peers shows us just how anxious and uncomfortable she was at school. Another example of Santha using mood to assist readers in understanding the uncomfortable feelings she experienced, was toward the end of the story. She realized what used to be a persistent, prominent memory has become just a part of her past. The head of Santha’s new school told her that it would be easier for everyone if she had an easier name, so she became Cynthia. “I put it happily away, because it had all