Wiesel and the rest of the Sighet Jews have been sent to Auschwitz. As they arrive Wiesel and c.o. are shocked by the sights and smells at the camp. "In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh"(28). In a scene akin to a nightmare, Wiesel describes what happened to him one night many years ago. The imagery "In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh"(28) shocks the reader with such a vivid and gruesome description. Wiesel's use of ghastly imagery to describe his arrival at the camp achieves his goal to invoke sympathy from the …show more content…
Expectantly, the Nazi regime did not have this, Wiesel uses outrageous imagery to describe an unfortunate boy. The well likes Oberkapo(leader) of the 51st unit and his pipel(child servant). The Oberkapo is tortured after his illegal activity is discovered. However, the Oberkapo refuses to deluge any information and he is never heard of again and his pipel is sentenced to death. At the hanging the other two prisoners die quickly but, the Pipel is so light that it takes him an agonizing half hour to die. "Being so light, the child was still alive. For more than a half hour he stayed there struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes.... That night the soup tasted of corpses"(62). The use of the imagery "dying in slow agony under our eyes"(62) invokes identification from the reader. Wiesel's descriptions of the death of the pipel are among the most horrifying moments of the book. Elie Wiesel saw many unfortunate events during his tenure at Auschwitz however, this counts as one of the most shocking and