Rhetorical Devices In Night By Elie Wiesel

“Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself ” (Wiesel 34). Elie Wiesel, the author of, Night, was only fifteen years old when his view on humanity was changed as a consequence of the Holocaust. After being deported to an Auschwitz concentration camp and torn apart from his mother and sisters at a young age, Elie and his father were commanded to perform forced labor as his mothers and sisters were sentenced to death in gaseous chambers. The Holocaust had an immense amount of brutality, as Wiesel depicted throughout his text he explains the spiritual struggles he had with his faith, along with the immense amount of death he witnessed. Elie Wiesel utilizes his exposure of the Holocaust to emphasize

His purpose in using logos in the interest of barging on the message of his story, and to persuade his audience into agreeing with it. The Holocaust being one of the most detrimental events in history is significant to Wiesel's audience as they grasp Wiesel's message of how horrific and the amount of brutality there was during the Holocaust. Wiesel takes his upper hand advantage and shares this memoir to show respect and remembrance for all of those lives that were lost throughout the Holocaust. Wiesel remarks, “The dead were left in the wagons. Only those who could stand could leave” (Wiesel 103). Wiesel makes use of logos as presented here as he demonstrates to the readers that in the course of the Holocaust there was nothing to be done about the vast amount of people who were left to die. Wiesel expressing how these people were just left dead in the wagon shows how little respect there was for their deaths during this horrific time. As a result of this Wiesel uses his first-hand experience to write about these people and give them a sense of recognition from what they had to go through. In conclusion, Wiesel takes advantage of the rhetorical appeal of logos to give an overall reason to his audience on what his purpose of writing his memoir was, in addition to persuading his audience into agreeing with

Wiesel takes use of diction throughout the novel by incorporating tones that he uses throughout his memoir. The diction of the novel has a major impact on the audience as a result of them grasping the same feeling that Wiesel had during his time of being a victim during the Holocaust. Wiesel recalls, “We sensed that the end was near; the real end. We could not hold out long in this glacial wind, this storm” (Wiesel 103). The rhetorical device of diction that Wiesel uses throughout his novel has an immense impact on the audience as Wiesel is trying to convey the audience of how he genuinely felt loss at hope for survival in the detrimental time. All in all, the use of diction that Wiesel applies to his writing helps the reader feel more of what Wiesel is trying to convince the audience of. As well as showing how humanity was broken as a result of evil