Literary Techniques Used In Elie Wiesel's Night

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The images of night, fire, and death repeat throughout the text. Which image stands out the most? Why? (Reference specific portions of the text in the response) The images of fire definitely stand out more to me than death and night. The reason Fire is the most vivid to me is because of the mother and child on the train car. This portion of the book took place while they were on their way to Auschwitz. It was a horrible situation to visualize. The mother was very distressed about something and her child was doing his best to comfort her. “Someone had placed a damp rag on her forehead. But she nevertheless continued to scream: ‘Fire! I see a fire!’ Here little boy way crying, clinging to her skirt, trying to hold her hand” (25). This portion of the story is disturbing on it’s own, but if you have previous knowledge of the Holocaust or …show more content…

“She received several blows to the head, blows that could have been lethal” (26). This quote provides foreshadowing to what the future has in store for them as well as shows how much the community they once knew had changed. In the span of just a few weeks their community had gone from possibly being annoyed by this situation, to beating a human until they were quiet. This rapid change also had a lot to do with their close quarters confinement, and sense of doom. This ordeal all started with the woman yelling, “Fire! I see a fire!”, so the words were either very important or traumatizing for her. Based on the words she was yelling I’d say they leaned more towards traumatizing. At the time the other characters had no way of knowing what she was saying might affect them but she was determined to make her message heard. The last part of this section that secures the with for ‘fire’ is how accurate she was with her prediction. Even though she only said a handful of words, all of those words described

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