Night Figurative Language Analysis

Night contains a significant amount of figurative language. Select 3 examples from the text to analyze. In analyzing each example, be sure to explain how the specific example impacts the text. (How does it affect the reader? How does it affect the reading experience? Why did Wiesel make that specific choice?) Please use a different type of figurative language for each example.

Throughout the Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel showed many examples of figurative language. Including metaphors, hyperboles, similes, and personification Wiesel included many of these not only giving the story mood but feel. My first example of figurative language is when Wiesel had foot surgery and soon later had to leave his concentration camp due to incadors. “I felt I had lost that foot. It had become detached from me like a wheel fallen off a car” (92). This quote is an example …show more content…
The reason I believe Night was more powerful was due to the image that Elie Wiesel put into your head while reading the book. Night was such a detailed and well written book that I felt the actual event going through my head. Night gave detailed evnts that happened and not only how he felt but how all the jews in camps felt. I felt a stronger connection with the book, i felt that wiesel had placed me in the book. I could feel more of the events small or big that happend while reading then i did watcjing the speech. The book gave a connection to its authours that the speech couldnt. It gave a sence of weakness and hope, I could feel the passion that wiesel had for his writing. Finaly i could see the pain that wiesel had gone through how emotionaly he was tired, sick, and hungary but he needed to push through. I could see in the speech the passion that you could see he suffered through his facial expressings due the speech but it just wasnt the same when you could picture word for word what was going through his head and how he