Metaphors In Night By Elie Wiesel

The passage before, “The joy in his eyes were lost, “ (7) shows Moishe trying to warn the other Jews, but to no avail. People ignored him and refused to listen. He finally gave up trying to be heard, to warn the others. He was pleading to be heard to help them. He doesn’t care to live because he was alone, but he wanted to help the other Jews escape or prepare. It said his joy was gone. Moishe had his will to live sucked out of him when no one would listen. The joy, which was the only thing he had left, was lost. His mere existence no longer mattered and he gave up; he no longer enjoyed life and felt defeated. Consequently, he came to the end of road and had loss all hope for himself and his people. When the last day of the Passover was over, Elie states, “The race towards death had begun,” (10). He realizes that his life is going to get a lot worse from this point on. The metaphor Elie uses compares the finish line to death which emphasizes how he is about to start enduring hardships that could take his life. The race is like a trial meant to defeat you, trying to filter out the weak even more. Here everyone is starting to realize their defeat to the …show more content…
He felt this way because he was standing in the freezing wind decaying away, waiting for orders. Elie uses this metaphor to compare his life to withered trees and the camp to the heart of a desert. The tree was a symbol of life, but it was withering away in the desert. He used the word heart to emphasize that he was deeply lost in the middle of a foreign place with no hope to survive. Elie was the tree, the source of life, enduring the harsh wind in the middle of a Gypsy camp. The camp to him was like a desert. He had no source of life, and his hope was fading away. He began to accept his inevitable fate of being the defeated, withered tree with no hope in the heart of a foreign