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Rhetorical Analysis For Night By Elie Wiesel

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Hannah Noel Mrs. Beaupre English 1 Honors 23 September 2016 Dialecticals 3-4 One passage that I think is interesting is, “No. Two steps from the pit we were ordered to turn to the left and made to go into the barracks” (Wiesel 25). With this quote the first thing that popped into my head was that these officers were petrifying the prisoners and making them think they were going to die and then at the last second turn them around. The fact that they did that is barbaric. They were making them pay, but for what, exactly? Are they making them pay for being Jewish? The officers were taking joy out of it, too. Nobody can change who they are, people just have to live with it are they can leave themselves not kill people for being who they are. People …show more content…

It is interesting he says that because it is kind of ironic that he says the universe is wonderful as he is at a concentration camp and people are getting murdered or beaten all around him. At the time, he doesn’t know he is in a concentration camp, but a few lines later it says it and it is really ironic that that’s how it actually worked in real life. It is also ironic because a few pages later people start to mention God and Elie starts to question whether or not He is a good guy. After all that has happened I don’t blame him, but I have a feeling he will thank God later in the story for other good things that will happen to him and his …show more content…

One example of this is, “As if he wanted to convince himself that this man addressing him was really a creature of flesh and bone, a living being with a body and a belly. Then, as if he had suddenly woke up from a heavy doze, he dealt my father such a clout that he fell to the ground, crawling back to his place on all fours” (Wiesel 29). From this I could picture the gypsy’s face when Mr. Wiesel went up to the, the look of confusion and then malice when he hit him just for asking (politely might I add) to go to the

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