Night: the Holocaust and Figurative Language

Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiography in which Elies aliveness during the Holocaust is explained. Elie Wiesel uses imagery, 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 populate everyw present. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the woid. It all belonged to everyone since it no prolonged belonged to anyone. Some were crying. They utilize whatever strength they had left to cry. Why had they let themselves be brought here?Why didnt they die in their beds? Their words were interspersed with sobs. (35). Elie explains how people reacted to conclusion their friends alive. You can picture how desperately they cried with an understanding as to why they were crying. The deuce men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the leash rope was still moving the child, too light, was still breathing. And so he remai ned for more than half an hour, lingering between life and deathHe was still alive when I passed him.His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished (64-65). As a way to show control, hold up fear and prevent rebellion, prisoners were hung. Elie describes the gruesome hanging of a young male child as he died a slow, painful death. The imagery throughout the take describes, with detail, things that couldnt be imagined alone. Elie writes his autobiography with figurative language. My soul had been invaded-and devoured-by a sick flame (37). Elie no longer felt like he was living. He uses a metaphor to compare the feeling of his kill to his soul being eaten. All I could hear was the fiddle, and it was as if Julieks soul had accommodate his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. (95). Elie meets Juliek, a man he knew before 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 harassment they felt. The element of pathos is also used by Elie as mover to describe his experience as he appeals to our emotions. Not far from us, flames, colossal flames, were rising from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck move close and unloaded its hold small children. Babies Yes, I did see this with my testify eyes children thrown into the flames. (32). Elie describes how the ones that couldnt work were treated.Because children were seen as a halt to the work, they were burned to their death. Even babies who havent had the chance to live life were mercilessly murdered. The idea of anxious(p), of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excr uciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, uncomplete fatigue nor cold, nothing. (86). Elie was in so overmuch pain living, her felt that dying would feel better then living. He was suffering 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 writing a bill that would indulge readers as they read how he lived and felt during the Holocaust. He uses things such(prenominal) 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 authentically understand unless we experienced it, he tries his best to speak of his experience as a survivor.