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Imagery In Night Elie Wiesel

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In the beginning Elie had little to no relationship with his father. His father did not have much time for Elie, because he was involved with the welfare of others than his own family.(Wiesel 4) In Chapter 3 after arriving at the camp Birkenau. Elie and his father gained a closer bond, because they are separated from the rest of their family and the two of them only have each other. (Wiesel 29)
In the end, Elie displayed no sympathy. He felt free at last. (Wiesel 112) The author employs imagery to allude to the horrors to come in the extermination camps. He wanted to get into specifics and demonstrate how awful the camps were. Moishe was able to escape the camp and testify of the horrors that awaited the Jews in the concentration camp. Nobody …show more content…

(Wiesel 6)The author employs imagery to allude to the horrors to come in the extermination camps. He wanted to get into specifics and demonstrate how awful the camps were. Moishe was able to escape the camp and testify of the horrors that awaited the Jews in the concentration camp. Nobody believed him regarding that. Foreign Jews were thrown off the train and pushed into the woods to dig death trenches for themselves, unaware that they would be shot and executed after they finished digging, and the police used newborns as targets with little remorse. (Wiesel 6)At the opening of night Elie's attitude towards religion he was deeply committed and faithful, but as time goes on through his experiences in the death camp made him grow angrier with God and Questioned if God was alive and how could he let the Jews suffer like this. (Wiesel 33) He says, " Why would he bless God? (Wiesel 67) At the age of fifteen he was a witness to brutal slaughtering of a group of people, dehumanization, family division and thrown in a fiery furnace. The author's attitude towards religion will forever be changed. At the end Elie feels after the death of his father he has nothing to live for.The meaning of

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The imagery in the Pipel's hanging scene develops the theme that witnessing and experiencing horror can cause a loss of faith by exhibiting how their God does not interfere with Earth's troubles. The Pipel's face is described as that of "an angel in distress" (Wiesel 63) and overall he is said to be a "sad-eyed angel" (Wiesel 64). This is different than how the other pipel's are described - the others are said to be exceptionally cruel, even more so than their elders. This is what makes the Pipel's death so impactful on Elie's faith - because the Pipel is like an angel, it is like Elie is watching his God be killed right before him. Before the Pipel's death, Elie had witnessed multiple other hangings.

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