Night By Elie Wiesel Language Analysis
In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel uses figurative language and diction to illustrate that in the darkest of times, if one keeps on going and persevering, success will always be possible.
Wiesel uses figurative language to show how hard it was to keep on fighting to survive and how difficult it was to not give up like the thousands of others. Elie writes, “I was putting one foot in front of the other mechanically. I was dragging with me this skeletal body which weighed so much. If only I could have got rid of it! In spite of my efforts not to think about it, I could feel myself as two entities - my body and me. I hated it. I repeated to myself: ‘Don’t think. Don’t stop. Run’” (81). This is a simile because it compares Elie’s movements to a robot or machine because of how forced they were. Elie is forcing his body …show more content…
The memoir states, “I too had become a completely different person, the student of Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered my soul and devoured it” (34). Elie uses vivid words and a gloomy and dark word choice to show what the concentration camps had done to them and how they had completely changed him as a person. The words dark, consumed, and devoured, describes how terrible his experience was. Another example of diction was, “Lying down was out of the question, and we were only able to sit by deciding to take turns. There was very little air. The lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by. After two days of traveling, we began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable” (21). From this very early stage of Elie’s journey, he was being challenged. In here, Elie uses words like tortured, thirst, and unbearable, to show the obstacles he faced before even getting to the concentration
Wiesel uses figurative language to show how hard it was to keep on fighting to survive and how difficult it was to not give up like the thousands of others. Elie writes, “I was putting one foot in front of the other mechanically. I was dragging with me this skeletal body which weighed so much. If only I could have got rid of it! In spite of my efforts not to think about it, I could feel myself as two entities - my body and me. I hated it. I repeated to myself: ‘Don’t think. Don’t stop. Run’” (81). This is a simile because it compares Elie’s movements to a robot or machine because of how forced they were. Elie is forcing his body …show more content…
The memoir states, “I too had become a completely different person, the student of Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered my soul and devoured it” (34). Elie uses vivid words and a gloomy and dark word choice to show what the concentration camps had done to them and how they had completely changed him as a person. The words dark, consumed, and devoured, describes how terrible his experience was. Another example of diction was, “Lying down was out of the question, and we were only able to sit by deciding to take turns. There was very little air. The lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by. After two days of traveling, we began to be tortured by thirst. Then the heat became unbearable” (21). From this very early stage of Elie’s journey, he was being challenged. In here, Elie uses words like tortured, thirst, and unbearable, to show the obstacles he faced before even getting to the concentration