Night: the Holocaust and Figurative Language

Night by Elie Wiesel is an chronicle in which Elies heart during the Holocaust is explained. Elie Wiesel uses vision, figurative language, and pathos as tools to express the horrors he experienced while living through a nightmare, the Holocaust. Elie describes his experiences with imagery. Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the woid. It all belonged to everyone since it no seven-day belonged to anyone. Some were crying. They used whatever strength they had left to cry. Why had they allow themselves be brought here?Why didnt they die in their beds? Their dustup were interspersed with sobs. (35). Elie explains how people reacted to finding their friends alive. You can picture how desperately they cried with an understanding as to why they were crying. The two men were no long-run alive. Their tongues were hanging out, vain and bluish. But the third rope was tranquillise moving the child, too light, was as yet breathing. And so he remained for m ore than half an hour, lingering between life and oddmentHe was still alive when I passed him.His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished (64-65). As a personal manner to show control, keep fear and prevent rebellion, prisoners were hung. Elie describes the gruesome hanging of a young boy as he died a slow, painful death. The imagery throughout the book describes, with detail, things that couldnt be imagined alone. Elie writes his autobiography with figurative language. My somebody had been invaded-and devoured-by a black flame (37). Elie no chronic mat similar he was living. He uses a metaphor to compare the feeling of his pop to his soul being eaten. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Julieks soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was slide over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. (95). Elie meets Juliek, a man he knew in the lead who played the violin in the Buna band, at the concentration camp in Buchenwald, and as Juliek plays his violin, Elie sees it as Julie expressing how he felt. Elie writes how Juliek and his violin symbolized everyones thoughts and feelings.Using different types of figurative language, Elie conveys the feelings of defeat and anguish they felt. The element of pathos is also used by Elie as meat to describe his experience as he appeals to our emotions. non far from us, flames, huge flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and unloaded its hold small children. Babies Yes, I did see this with my own eyes children thrown into the flames. (32). Elie describes how the ones that couldnt work were treated.Because children were seen as a hindrance to the work, they were burned to their death. Even babies who havent had the put on the line to live life were mercilessly murdered. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciati ng pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. (86). Elie was in so much pain living, her felt that dying would feel better then living. He was pain so much to the point where he would even accept death if it came.Elie writes with pathos, as he appeals to the readers emotions. Elie Wiesels autobiography, Night, uses many components in pen a story that would indulge readers as they read how he lived and felt during the Holocaust. He uses things such as imagery, figurative language, and pathos as means to do so. The pain, the horrors, the fear, the defeat felt during that nightmare, the Holocaust things that we wouldnt ever be able to truly understand unless we experienced it, he tries his best to mouth of his experience as a survivor.