Night Foreshadowing Analysis

Have you ever felt like you were working too hard or doing work is stupid, well imagine if that hard work was cruel and unbearable with no breaks work all day and disease was all around, you were exposed to all climates without the necessities to live but if you didn't do the work you would die. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses Symbolism, Irony, and foreshadowing to show the cruel and awful treatment the Jews will face in the concentration camps. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel uses many Literary devices such as Symbolism, Irony, and Foreshadowing. One example of how he uses symbolism is when he saw “a truck drew close and unloaded its hold: small children babies! Yes, I did see this, children thrown into the flames(pg.32).”
This shows symbolism with the flames, the biggest example of cruel awful treatment of the jews emotionally and physically. Imagine witnessing your child being thrown into a pit of fire that would destroy a person and physically being burned is the most gruesome way to die. Explaining why the flames were a symbol of death for all the jews in concentration camps. Another example of symbolism is corpses. The image of corpses is used not only to describe literal death, but also to symbolize spiritual death. Like when “One day when I was able to …show more content…
Details of the story along with Elie’s determination to survive with his father has made this story so well known. Elie’s use of literary devices such as symbolism, tone and foreshadowing helped illustrate the horrors he encountered in the concentration camps. Elie wants people to remember as he remembers his experience. “Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God himself. Never.” If people around the world remember what happened to millions of people between 1941 and 1945, the hope is that history will not repeat