How Does Wiesel Use Imagery In From Night

People of America today are mostly sheltered from the poor reality of the world and are protected behind the safety of Laws and the standard social normality. Some people are so ‘protected’ from the real world that they have the impression that the Holocaust never existed. The denial of the Holocaust is assumably one of many reasons writers/prisoners of the Holocaust vocalized their stories. Eli Wiesel the narrator and author of ‘From Night’ expresses his experience as a prisoner of war, held by German Nazis, in his short autobiography. Wiesel employs imagery as a Literary device to reveal how they perceived the dehumanizing and harsh affects of the Holocaust and how they adapted for their survival.
Wiesel’s personal experiences with the Holocaust as a 15-year-old boy was like most Jews, he observed vile and disturbing images that was so sinister he had to write it down to let everyone know. To begin, Wiesel had faced the worries of “A merciless selection”(310) resulting to
Various Jews dread the sound of bells ringing, it told them when to work, prepare for selection (death) , to stand still in a line, when they could rest, and when the families “must separate”(321). Wiesel despised the bells, he “dreamed of a better world..[and] could only imagine a universe without bells”(311) but he obeyed them nonetheless. These quotes illustrate imagery, by visuals of the prisoners, lined up naked and how their emaciated bodies unhealthily resembled a skeleton. The sound of bells that rung is patronizing to Jews and made them wish there was a world without bells, this demonstrates that the German Jews conformed to the ringing, stress and affliction the Holocaust caused Eli Wiesel, and his fellow