time. As a reader‚ personification allows us to easier relate to the idea or feeling the author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.” Remorse cannot eat away at a person‚ but it allows the reader to understand how guilty Elie felt when he did not stand up for his father. A second example of figurative language used in Night is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing allows the author to keep
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author reflects the complexing relationship between father and son through the fathers collective fears of one day losing his son due to his own incompetence. Lee’s constructive use of literary devices explores the in depth nature of the fear of loss illustrated by the bond of father and son. This is shown through various points of view‚ selective diction‚ and the poems own structure. Throughout A Story‚ the author shifts from the continuing view of the father and the son to emphasize a growing differences
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In Elie Wiesel’s book‚ "Night"‚ the main character Eliezer‚ goes through numerous struggles with his faith in God which is caused by the Holocaust. This horrific genocide changed the way many Jews and others thought about their religion and views on things. Just like others Eliezer experienced the same but was questionable about his faith even before the Holocaust took place. In the beginning of Night‚ Eliezer went to the synagogue to pray every day and wanted study the cabbala very badly but
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Father-Son Relationships in The Odyssey "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich‚ for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." This quote‚ stated by Epictetus‚ is an ideal depiction of the importance of father-son relationships in Homer’s ancient Greek epic‚ The Odyssey. The protagonist of The Odyssey‚ Odysseus‚ fights among the other Greek heroes at Troy and struggles to return to his kingdom in Ithaca where his loyal wife‚ Penelope‚ and his
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Dawn by Elie Wiesel In this report you will see the comparisons between the novel Dawn and the life of Elie Wiesel‚ its author. The comparisons are very visible once you learn about Elie Wiesel’s life. Elie Wiesel was born on September28‚1928 in the town of Hungary. Wiesel went through a lot of hard times as a youngster. In 1944‚ Wiesel was deported by the nazis and taken to the concentration camps. His family was sent to the town of Auschwitz. The father‚ mother‚ and sister of Wiesel
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In his book‚ Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses vivid imagery and dramatic diction to bring to life his horrid and painful memories of the Holocaust and his time in Auschwitz. At the end of chapter 4 Wiesel describes the events that occurred leading up to the death of a young pipel. This scene is brought to life by Wiesel’s incredible use of diction to reinforce the imagery used to create a sense of emotion felt by the reader. Throughout this book diction is used to create a deeper connection to the events
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Pathos- this is effectively used frequently through out the text so that the speaker gets the audience to be emotional. An example of this is when he says “ to be abandoned by god is worse than to be punished by him” (444). By saying this‚ the speaker get the audience to empathize with the victim‚ put themselves in the victims shoes‚ which gets the emotions and feeling across to all the members of the audience and get then engaged. He uses human emotion as a way to speak out against the holocaust
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In What Dies? At the end of Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ as Wiesel is staring back into his own corpses eyes‚ it is clear to readers that Wiesel’s emotions‚ feelings‚ and even psychological mindset is completely and utterly eradicated. After enduring not only the mental toll of the Holocaust but also the somatic torture placed upon him‚ Wiesel is nothing but dead- just not literally. As found on page 85‚ “I was putting one foot in front of the other‚ like a machine.” This refers to a time when Wiesel’s
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impossible‚ it was to speak” (Wiesel introduction). Elie Wiesel introduces his tragic memoir Night with the fact that silence was not the answer for victims of atrocities. This memoir depicts Elie Wiesel’s experiences at Auschwitz‚ one of the cruelest concentration camps during the Holocaust. Through the pain and seemingly eternal silence that fell upon the victims‚ a voice needed arise to shed light on the broken actions in the world. Elie Wiesel‚ in his memoir Night‚ reminds the world that “silence”
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Father-Son Relationship in "Reunion" As children we look up to our parents as role models‚ it is universal that we have the need to have them in our lives‚ to feel loved by them. They are the people who should be responsible for our upbringing and in molding the way we are to be as adults. The role of a parent is not just providing food and shelter but also providing a good example. Unfortunately‚ this does not always happen. There are parents who for one reason or another are not there for
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