In Night, by Elie Wiesel, his purpose is to show the pain and suffering in a world where there is no hope. Without hope he expounds that life will no longer be able to preserve itself and will get consumed by darkness. This message in his memoir is enhanced through many literary devices such as his hopeless tone and the symbol of night. His tone is very mourning and dark to demonstrate that the inhumane acts faced in the concentration camps completely took all the light in the world. For example, once his camp gets liberated by the American soldiers he looks at his reflection and says dolorously, “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left” (Wiesel 115). In this statement
