Night 1st Draft

The Horrifying Events in the lives of Elie and Schlomo Wiesel (1st Draft) Imagine having your whole world torn apart just because some new political leaders decide they want to kill everyone who believes in a certain religion. Well, this actually happened in World War II. When the Nazi’s took over Germany in 1933, their leader was Adolf Hitler. Apparently, he did not like the Jews too much for some reason so he decided to attempt mass genocide on the Jews. Elie Wiesel was one of the few, very lucky survivors of the Holocaust. In his novel Night, he documents events that he went through with his father, Schlomo during the Holocaust. He utilizes diction, or his word choice to explain these events. He also utilizes imagery the reader can have a better picture in their head of what happened to him and his father. Syntax is also used to organize the words he uses. Diction, imagery, and syntax develop the father-son relationship between Elie and Schlomo. Wiesel uses diction to help develop the relationship between Elie and Schlomo in Night. “The two adults were no longer alive. Their tongues hung swollen, blue-tinged.”(62) “Blue-tinged” is used to create a horrid portrayal of what the Nazi’s had done to those two adults and the child. He did not even need to say the whole second sentence of the quote but it definitely helped to think about what was done during the Holocaust. “The time was passing quickly now. Dusk had fallen. The day was disappearing in a monochrome of gray.”(79) He uses the word “monochrome” to emphasize how gray the sky was that day. Just using gray would make the scene boring in a way. Using the complex words that he uses, it creates a better picture in the mind of the reader which may also be associated with imagery. Furthermore, Wiesel uses imagery to depict the relationship between Elie and Schlomo. “On we went between the electric wires. At each step, a white caption: ‘Warning. Danger of death.’”(37) This was used by the Nazi’s to put