Imagery in "Night"

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Imagery can be defined as the ability to form mental images of things or events. The Holocaust was the careless and brutal massacre of six million Jews by the Nazis, who were under the rule of Adolf Hitler, during World War II. In the book “Night” Elie Wiesel describes his harsh, devastating journey throughout the Holocaust by using imagery. During the novel “Night”, Elie vividly describes his experiences throughout the holocaust when they first arrive at Auschwitz and saw the fire, when Elie and his convoy arrive at Buna, and during the alert when a man tries to get an extra ration of soup.

First off, a passage that really catches the reader’s eye by the use of imagery is when the Jews first arrive at the camp Auschwitz. The Jews are packed into cattle cars and sent to death and labor camps. During the ride, a woman named Madame Shachter kept yelling that there was a fire. Every time they looked they saw nothing but darkness, but when they arrived at the camp Auschwitz, the Jews and the reader can finally see the fire in the distance.”We [stare] at the flames in the darkness. A wr...

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