Elie Wiesel Night Imagery

The relationship between a father and a son is a long and complicated one. Many trials can break the bond amongst predecessor and descendant, however, only a genuine, unsettling evil can bring the two together more closely than ever before. Three techniques are easily identified in the excerpt: the motif of identity loss, resonance to the readers and imagery. From this small section of the memoir important understandings are easily identifiable, such as the way Shlomo and Elie’s relationship intensifies and completely reverses, from a father and child, to equals, and finally Elie taking full care of his father by the end of his journey. Elie Wiesel's writing is an incredible work of art. Resonance connecting to the memoir can be found in each paragraph on any page of this account and particularly in the excerpt from page 39. The emotional resonance of this passage creates a new understanding of the
In Elie Wiesel’s work imagery helps the reader to visualize his writings more realistically. On page 39 of Night we see very prominent use of imagery. “As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Then as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours.”(Wiesel’s, 39) We vividly imagine this scene almost to the point where we hear the snap of the prisoner’s palm hitting Shlomo’s cheek. The memoirs written as if by a detached third party point of view. Imagery was created in a very simplistic way as was the entire writing of the memoir, because if Wiesel had described what he had witnessed in full detail and emotion he would have completely broken down and therefore never completed his memoir that has had such an impact