Examples Of Diction In Night By Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel could be described as your normal, average boy who loved his family, friends, and God. All this changed when WW2 began. Wiesel’s whole life got turned upside down and changed. Wiesel, along with his father, got sent to a concentration camp. In that camp they had lost everything, their personal possessions, their family, and even their will to live. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses diction, imagery, and tone to illustrate the loss of humanity during the holocaust. Loss of humanity was a huge theme during the holocaust because of all the things they had lost and the way the Naziz did this.
“The three ‘veteran’ prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name” (42). Wiesel uses diction to show how much the Naziz wanted the Jews to think that they were objects and not humans. The Naziz thought that
Babies! Yes, I did see this, with my own eyes… children thrown into the flames” (32). Wiesel uses imagery in this quote to illustrate what happened in the camps and how they affected people. He continues on and almost committed suicide because of this horrific sight. He even began to lose his faith in God himself. From the beginning to the end Elise changed a great amount. “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me”(115). Wiesel uses imagery to show how much he had changed during the course of the novel. He explains how much the camps had changed Wiesel during the novel.
Finally. Wiesel uses symbolism in Night to show the reader the great sadness that hangs over the camp. The title itself showed symbolism in how the world went dark when the concentration camps happened. Either America had no light on the subject because they were not there, or that the end was nowhere near sight.It also showed how if tomorrow was new and different but it would never come. It showed how dark this point in his life is that felt like one long