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"I remained in Buchenwald until April 11. I shall not describe my life during that period. It no longer mattered. Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore" (pg 113).
In this scene Eli doesn't want to talk about anything that happen while his father was alive. Wiezel's choice to use overview emphasize the theme of how people were traumatized by the things they faced because the overview indicates how not many people expressed themselves by the trauma of that Holocaust. Through the use of this device, context and theme, Wiezel hopes to inform the reader of how victims of the Holocaust had very little saying in what happen due to the fact that they were traumatized and had very little motivation to express themselves to others and care about things.
" And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed by him. His tongue was still red, his eyes not yet extinguished" (pg 65).
In this scene a man was being hung and the campers had to watch while everything was happening. Wiezel's choice to use descriptive language emphasize the theme of how people faced traumatizing events during the Holocaust because the description indicates how people didn't want to see people die but instead they were forced to watch and remember what happen to people. Through the use if this device, context and theme, Wiezel hopes to inform the reader of how the Holocaust was a place where you saw people between life and death a place where you couldn't do anything but watch and remember the traumatizing events that happen.
"I felt I could touch it. The idea of dying, of ceasing to be began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel the excruciating pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold nothing" (pg 86).
In this scene Elie and the rest of the campers had to run for a really long time to get to there next destination. Wiezel's choice to use emotions emphasize the theme of how people were traumatized by the things they faced in the Holocaust because the emotions indicate that people were in trauma while they had to do things but instead kept pushing through there injuries until they reached there destination to be cured. Through the use of this device, context and theme, wiezel hopes to inform the reader of how the victims of the Holocaust not only faced trauma mentally but physically as well.
Night: by Elie Wiesel
Through out this book the author uses a variety literary devices to inform the theme of how victims of the Holocaust faced traumatizing events that changed their lives.
"I pinched myself: Was I alive? Was I awake? How was it possible that men, women and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? No. All this could not be real" (pg 32).
"After what seemed like a long moment, the hangman put the rope around his neck. He was about to signal his aides to pull the chair from under the young man's feet when the latter shouted, in a strong and calm voice" (pg62).
In this scene Elie and his dad are next in line to being burned.
Wiezel's choice to use inner thoughts emphasize the theme of how people were traumatized by the things they faced during the Holocaust because the inner thoughts indicate the panic that went through peoples mind when they saw things that weren't normal and knew that they weren't right but instead allowed people to get killed and the ones alive be traumatized by what they encounter. Through the use of this device, context and theme, Wiezel hopes to inform the reader of how people took there life for granted and knew that every dangerous and horrific events that happen could have caused there life.
In this scene a man was hung and killed. Wiezel's choice to use descriptive language emphasize the theme of how people were traumatized by the things they faced because the descriptive language indicates how watching people get hung was something victims of the Holocaust had to see which ended up being something that people thought a lot and where afraid it could happen to them. Through the use of this device, context and theme, Wiezel hopes to inform the reader of how victims faced incidents that were harsh during the Holocaust that made there life different and traumatizing.
By Nayeli Cruz