How Does Elie Wiesel Use Repetition In Night

Faith can uplift people during their struggle for survival. Whenever people are mentally lost, they look towards their beliefs to escape hopelessness. The memoir Night was written by Elie Wiesel many years after his presence in the Holocaust. Eliezer talks about Jews in concentration camps in Poland and Germany controlled by the Nazis, where the torture of Jews increasingly got worse from 1944 to 1955. Millions of Jews were sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp controlled by the Nazis. Elie, also known as Eliezer, and his father were sent there and separated from his mother and sisters as men and women were sent to different places. What happens to Elie’s mother and sisters is not mentioned often, but Elie’s memoir is clear and devastating. The brutality, such as starvation, death, and torture, in the

Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.”(Wiesel 32). Author Elie Wiesel uses metaphor and hyperbole, to exaggerate Eliezer’s loss of God and Eliezer’s dreams. Elie also uses the form of repetition, repeating “Never shall I forget” after every thought to highlight an emotion or concept or develop a sense of intensity. The passage reveals God was not tied to Eliezer anymore. As events intensified, people’s beliefs in God, such as Eliezer and Moshel, were lacking, and so was their faith. Religion is one of the factors that lead to people losing faith in themselves or others, but savagery and inhumanity are also major contributors. Eliezer has encountered and been informed of the cold-blooded occurrences by humans during his time in the concentration camps. Eliezer wonders dumbfoundedly, “How could it be possible for them to burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent?” (Wiesel