“Suddenly, the silence became more oppressive” (Wiesel 38). In the text, Elie and the other Jews were sitting in the camp. The introduction of the officer made everything silent. This silence wasn't oppressive but it described how it made everyone worried and nervous. “The word chimney here was not an abstraction: it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. It was, perhaps, the only word that had real meaning in this place.” (Wiesel 39) In this text, Elie expresses that the chimney was 'floating in the air'. Elie uses this metaphor of the chimney to describe that all the Jews had the chimney on their minds. The word, chimney, had a hefty effect on the Jews mind-set.
In conclusion, the book, Night, uses a variety of literary elements to hook the reader in. Elements like hyperboles created lots of exaggeration to express the situation more while metaphors help to describe the environment they were in. This showed how terrible the camps were and portray the how abysmal the officers were. The elements helped to explain the scenarios as much as possible because as Elie says, "Only those who experienced Auschwitz know what it was. Others will never know." (Wiesel