Elements Of Design In Night By Elie Wiesel

The Design Throughout Night In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel delivers a novel based on the Holocaust, which was an event that was devastating and unforgettable, and he talks about his understanding on what he saw, but how does a person record his experience and follow up on such an appalling action? Throughout the book, Elie portrays a style that is simplistic, but his style is important for this topic to be mentioned so that he would not lose this experience and forget the memory. Also it is important since he wanted the audience to get the attention easily that this is the stuff people see in concentration camps in Auschwitz, so he describes his experience. Style is the way the novel is written, so in Night, it is simplistic for the fact …show more content…
Much later in the novel, the people taken had to run, and work for the SS soldiers and the treatment was brutal and demanding. When The SS forced the prisoners to run and not give up, Wiesel remembers, “Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of this pleasure” (85). This is a euphemism to express a cleaner way of saying that the soldiers loved the pain the men were getting out of themselves while running and the same goes for killing the ones who gave up, in other words, they enjoyed it. The style emphasised here is simple so the readers can understand what Elie is trying to mention, but this connects since we can understand what is going on without thinking too much, that this is a better phrase to describe the gruesome things occurring while the prisoners are running and how they feel about murdering citizens. “Pleasure” is a key word there in the text that tells us that the SS soldiers love to murder people, so this is his simple style showcased here because of the simplicity of it for the audience to understand the events. Also during the run, people began to get over exhausted and numb. During the march when Elie and the group were running in the cold, Elie mentions, “It had become detached from me like a wheel fallen off a car” (Wiesel 92). His use of a simile describes the condition of his foot as he was getting exhausted. Elie …show more content…
This novel is about the Holocaust, so this was meant to be such a straightforward and descriptive style because of how tragic the event was, and also to describe some of the characters feelings and beliefs through rhetoric devices to the audience. Wiesel’s goal was to express his experience in Auschwitz and he was also making a point to the audience to store this event in our minds and never shred it, so this had to be such a style to get the audience going on his experience and also what disastrous events that may come to play if someone ends up in a concentration camp of some sort. The fact that this was horrific and that he had to write this novel should bring attention to the audience to remember and prevent the