Night: the Holocaust and Figurative Language

iniquity by Elie Wiesel is an narrative in which Elies life during the final solution is explained. Elie Wiesel uses imagery, figurative language, and pathos as tools to say the horrors he experient while backup through a nightmare, the Holocaust. Elie describes his reckons with imagery. Open suite everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the woid. It all belonged to everyone since it no eternal belonged to anyone. Some were crying. They used whatever strength they had left to cry. Why had they allow themselves be brought here?Why didnt they die in their beds? Their words were interspersed with sobs. (35). Elie explains how stack reacted to finding their friends alive. You can picture how urgently they cried with an understanding as to why they were crying. The devil men were no longer alive. Their tongues were abeyance out, swollen and bluish. But the third get was be quiet moving the child, too light, was still breathing. And so he remained for more tha n one-half an hour, lingering between life and destructionHe was still alive when I passed him.His tongue was still red, his eyes non yet extinguished (64-65). As a way to show control, keep hero-worship and prevent rebellion, prisoners were hung. Elie describes the gruesome hanging of a young boy as he died a slow, painful finish. The imagery passim the book describes, with detail, things that couldnt be imagined alone. Elie writes his autobiography with figurative language. My sense had been invaded-and devoured-by a sullen flame (37). Elie no longer matte like he was living. He uses a metaphor to compare the receiveing of his thrashing to his soul being eaten. All I could hear was the fiddle, and it was as if Julieks soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His firm being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. (95). Elie meets Juliek, a man he knew before who played the violin in the Buna band, at the c oncentration camp in Buchenwald, and as Juliek plays his violin, Elie translates it as Julie expressing how he felt. Elie writes how Juliek and his violin symbolized everyones thoughts and feelings.Using different types of figurative language, Elie conveys the feelings of beat and anguish they felt. The element of pathos is withal used by Elie as essence to describe his experience as he appeals to our emotions. Not far from us, flames, huge flames, were uprise from a ditch. Something was being burned there. A truck drew close and drop off its hold small children. Babies Yes, I did see this with my own eyes children thrown into the flames. (32). Elie describes how the ones that couldnt work were treated.Because children were seen as a verification to the work, they were burned to their death. Even babies who havent had the chance to live life were pitilessly murdered. The idea of destruction, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist. To no longer feel t he pain pain of my foot. To no longer feel anything, neither fatigue nor cold, nothing. (86). Elie was in so much pain living, her felt that dying would feel better then living. He was suffering so much to the horizontal surface where he would even accept death if it came.Elie writes with pathos, as he appeals to the averers emotions. Elie Wiesels autobiography, Night, uses many components in writing a story that would indulge readers as they read how he lived and felt during the Holocaust. He uses things such as imagery, figurative language, and pathos as means to do so. The pain, the horrors, the fear, the defeat felt during that nightmare, the Holocaust things that we wouldnt ever be able to truly understand unless we experienced it, he tries his best to speak of his experience as a survivor.