Metaphors In Night

The book Night made by Eli Wiesel is about a young 15-year-old Romina Jewish boy who was put into a concentration camp with his father in Germany. Eli Wiesel's Book Night was created to create Diction, Imagery, and Pathos to show the dangers of losing faith and the fear of not caring about others' suffering.

Throughout the book, He uses imagery to show how being in these conditions can make you not care about others' suffering. For example in the book when he says “When the SS were tried and they were replaced. But no one replaced us”. This shows that the guards are being subbed in and out to watch over the prisoners but the Jews had to walk for hours without any stopping and no one could sub in for them and take a break. He describes the cold, hunger, and death that he and his fellow prisoners face every day. He also uses powerful metaphors to show the dehumanization of the Jews, such as when he writes that "the SS was no longer human beings. They were beasts with human faces, men with the morals of animals." This imagery helps to create a sense of the unimaginable horror and suffering that Eliezer and his fellow prisoners experienced.

For example when Elie says “Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me… You’re killing your father…I have bread…for you too…for you too…” He collapsed…..The old man mumbled something, groaned, and died.” This shows how just for a piece of bread someone's son is willing to beat up his father for it and not care that it’s his father he is hurting. He also talks about losing faith is a recurring theme throughout the book, and Wiesel suggests that it was a common experience among many Jews who went through the Holocaust. By showing what events they had to go through and how that impacted