Analytical Essay On Night By Elie Wiesel

Not many people survived the Holocaust, much less lived to tell a story about it. Elie Wiesel, a nobel-prize winning author, opens up about his personal experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp in his memoir, Night. Elie Wiesel was placed into a concentration camp in 1944, at the young age of 15. In his memoir, he elucidates his experience so that he is able to explain external events and describe the internal events caused to those willing to listen in order for change to occur and for history not to repeat itself. In order to emphasize his point, Wiesel appeals to the emotions of his readers. For instance, Wiesel describes the effect the bell had on the camp and more specifically himself by explaining, “The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.” This demonstrates how the Jewish prisoners

The appeal reminds the audience of the prison-like resemblance of the concentration camps. Wiesel attempts to create an added emotion of sympathy towards his readers in order to illustrate his experience and emphasize his point. This is an effective method of touching the emotion we feel to such an event by identifying the non-human objects that controlled people, in order for people to realize that change must be a given. As the story moves along, Wiesel uses tenacious connotative references by introducing, “Dr.Mengele [who] was holding a list: our numbers.” The phrase, “a list: our numbers,” describes the true horror and fear concentration camps inflicted upon prisoners. One list determined one’s fate of life or death and illustrated how the