Metaphors In Night By Elie Wiesel

During the book Night by Elie Wiesel the author uses figurative language to describe and connect the reader to the book. While reading it is easy to find out what types of figurative language are there to describe like similes and hyperboles which add to the text but don 't really make the reader think.

Do you remember learning about the holocaust? The holocaust was a historical event and lasted twelve years. It was a horrible time in the world. Elie Wiesel in the memoir “Night” explains why the holocaust should never happen again. Wiesel uses pathos, Metaphors, and lastly repetition to support his explanation.

When Elie Wiesel becomes a captive Jew, Wiesel along with his family and friends begin a journey to a concentration camp known as Auschwitz. On the way to the torturous camp, Madame Schächter warns her peers of an upcoming fire, however, no one believes her words. As a consequence, young men restrain her by tying her up and declares her a lunatic. The warning of Madame Schächter foreshadows the gas chambers in the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Although no one believes her words, the women continues to speak and persuade her fellows.

In 1941 through 1945 there were many atrocities happening at once which destroyed many places around the world during World War II, but there is one specific event that impacted Europe by terrorizing many people, which was the Holocaust. At just 15 years old Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night witnessed the Holocaust first-hand, and he realized that it was vital to share his story with the world so people would be aware of what happened and avoid repeating mistakes in the future. In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, hyperbole, and personification to make the story more realistic for the readers. These 3 types of figurative language help the reader to understand the experience that Elie and the Jewish community went through. The true story Night uses multiple of literary devices to help

The second “kiss” from God Elie received was in the Rabbi’s words. When his life began to progressively become worse in the camps moments like the ones in the ghettos were not common; he began to become more despair. The book Night states, “He was the only rabbi whom nobody ever failed to address as "Rabbi" in Buna. He looked like one of those prophets of old, always in the midst of his people when they needed to be consoled. And, strangely, his words never provoked anyone.

In the memoir Night, the author, Elie Wiesel, tells his story about his life during the Holocaust. He talks about his experience in the concentration camps and the traumatic events that occurred. This is all to show a few different meanings. Firstly, the title itself represents the darkness and anguish the Jews experienced. One way Wiesel expresses this meaning is through figurative language, for example, “The days resembled the nights, and the nights left in our souls the dregs of their darkness (Wiesel 94).”

The word night can represent sleep and peacefulness, but it can also bring darkness and the unknown. The author of the book Night, Elie Wiesel, wrote about his traumatic experience as a teenage boy during the Holocaust. Wiesel chose the title Night because of the fear felt by the Jews which the word night symbolizes. Night symbolizes the fear because of the multiple times the Jews transfered location during night, the fear the prisoners experienced daily of what may happen to them and their family after hearing stories from fellow Jews, and the horrific killings and executions that happened throughout the memoir including the hanging of the young Pipel. The book focuses on the experiences Wiesel goes through during the Holocaust.

Night by Elie Wiesel is a powerful memoir taht tells the story of the author'srs experiences during the holocaust. The book is a testament to the horrors of humanity and the unspeakable suffering that can occur when people turn against one another. However, despite the overwhelming darkness that Wiesel faced, he was able to overcome the pain and tragedy of his past and find hope for the future. The experiences that Wiesal endured in the concentration camps, such as the loss of his family and friends, the physical and psychological abuse, and the constant fear of death,would have been enough to break the spirit of any person.

In the beginning of Elie Wiesel’s Night Elie is very faithful to God and eager to learn about God, the Kabbalah, and mysticism. When asked why does he pray Elie answered, “Why did I live? Why did I breathe?(4) ” After one of God’s Followers and Elie’s leader, Moishe the Beadle gets back from the forests everything changed. News about the Holocaust starts to spread.

Before I begin discussing about the symbolism in Night, I want to point out the importance of symbolism in any form of storytelling, and even in reality. In a way, symbolism is what makes ordinary objects or symbols into meaning. Symbolism can make anything as powerful as actual words. In that sense, symbolism creates the story being read. I believe a story can become more powerful and more touching if there is a very symbolic object or symbol involved.

Elie Wiesel titled the book Night because metaphorically speaking, the reader can connect subjects such as light and hope with day. Meanwhile, the opposite, darkness, despise, and hopelessness can be symbolized with night. Throughout his experiences within the concentration camps, Wiesel felt despair and evil around him and the other prisoners. He lost his faith in his religion and almost died on several occasions because of all the misery surrounding him. “‘For God’s sake, where is God?’

In this essay I am going to be writing and giving explanations about a few questions regarding the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. The questions are as followed, what does the word Night symbolize for Wiesel? Why do I think he entitled his book “Night”? And how does he describe the night time, and how does it compare to “day”? It symbolizes Wiesel horrible experience at the concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel chose the title for his book, Night, because of many different reasons. I believe that the most important reason is because of fear. For many people, the nighttime is scary. There is darkness, there is the unknown, and there is the possibility of anything. “It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side” (Wiesel 84).

Night mainly contains similes, metaphors and hyperbole. First, the simile that most stood out to me was “He had some seven hundred prisoners under his command, and they all loved him like a brother”(Wiesel,63). This simile, in a way, compares the officer to the other officers because it shows he treats his prisoners better. It also says that “Nobody had ever endured a blow or even an insult from him”(Wiesel, 63). So we know that he cares enough about those people not to hurt or insult them voluntarily.

In the nightmare world of the concentration camps, the Nazis replace God. Eliezer describes the scene at the selection All the prisoners in the block stood naked between the beds. This must be how one stands at the last judgment. The reference to the last judgment is a religious allusion to the end of the world, when God will decide who will be saved into heaven. In the perverse world of the concentration camps, Dr. Mengele takes on the role of God, deciding who will live and who will die.