Night Elie Wiesel Silence Essay

Silence...it’s a simple word that can hold so much over a person. A word that once it is said no longer describes itself. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, flashbacks, and characterization to explain how silence is forced, as well as broken into the people throughout the Holocaust. The inmates were forced to watch horrific events and became accustomed to it, many others did as well, such as the townspeople, who were used to seeing emaciated prisoners pushed through the towns. None of them said a word about it in public for they were also living in fear, whether they were conscious of it or not. Many people suffered and were forced to keep silent about the horrific events occurring in and outside of the camp. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses imagery, flashbacks, and characterization to show how silence is forced upon the prisoners.
Many people were being killed in the concentration camps and some were made examples of. In the story Night, Elie uses imagery to show how vivid and horrific the events that occur in the concentration camps and how impressionable they can be on a person. During Elie’s time at one camp there was a young pipel who was hung for helping with a sabotage of the power for the electric plant at camp Buna. The young boy was found guilty along with a few other male inmates who were said to have
Wiesel is trying to teach us about the harm of silence as well as his experience with it. He said there are many things he will never forget but silence was always there. It could be the silent dark night or the silence of someone hiding a secret. He will be stuck with these memories and the haunting ideas of all that has happened. Silence can be deadly, yet silence always speaks louder than