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Elie Wiesel Use Of Foreshadowing And Symbols In Night

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People always say that bad things happen at night. I believe Elie Wiesel called his Holocaust memoir, Night because Wiesel uses foreshadowing and symbolization of bad things with the name Night. Throughout the book, we see how Wiesel mentions the physical and symbolic darkness of night, right before something terrible happens. For example, in chapter 7 pgs 98-103, when Night symbolization as it relates to the author’s experiences. This happens when the car stops in a field and SS soldiers shout at the people in the cars to throw out their dead. People in the car look for the dead, take their clothes and push them out. That is why in Chapter 7, nighttime serves as a literal and symbolic time of despair. In conclusion, the title refers to the

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