Use Of Writing Techniques In Night By Elie Wiesel

Lauren Bujel

Mr. Deines

17 January, 2023

The Writing Techniques of Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust is an event in history that took place in Nazi Germany during World War II. The Jews were kept in concentration camps that were designed to either kill the Jewish people or to have them work until they’re no longer useful to the Nazis. About six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The book Night is about the Holocaust and Elie Wiesel’s experience with being kept in the concentration camps. He was only fifteen when the Holocaust started. Night was written because Wiesel felt like it was his duty to show people through his writing what he and others had to go through while being stuck in the concentration camps. I believe that

The ellipsis marks help understand the desperation to keep each other going by the families in the Holocaust and how much the prisoners worried about whether they would be killed or kept alive. On page seventy two Wiesel wrote “I felt as though I had been running for years…You are too skinny, you are too weak … At last I arrived.” Wiesel also wrote on page eighty eight “Not here… Getup … A little farther down. There is a shed over t h e r e … Come … " These examples show how the writing isn’t exaggerated but is still making it so the reader can understand how hard the prisoners had to fight for their lives and how hard they tried to keep each other going. Both of these examples of ellipsis marks help show the lack of exaggeration in this sober writing style but still communicates the emotions that the prisoners are

The symbolism used by Wiesel helps understand the feelings of the prisoners while they were ordered around and didn’t have much of their own freedom. On page sixty three and sixty five Wiesel wrote “Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy and stared at his extinguished eyes, the tongue hanging from his gaping mouth… I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever…” and “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… That night, the soup tasted of corpses.” Wiesel also wrote on page seventy three “The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly.” The symbolism of soup shows that at the beginning the prisoners were happy that they even lived through the day so the soup tasted great even though someone else got hung but the day that a young kid was hanged, the soup tasted of corpses. The bell felt like something that ordered them around and they had to go by the bells schedule. This shows the development of Wiesel's sober writing style because of the grave events that