Rhetorical Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust was a inhumane event in the 1930’s where Jews were wrongfully treated and deliberately killed; there were some survivors who lived to tell their story. In his autobiography, Night, Elie Wiesel describes his experience as a Jew during the Holocaust. Wiesel’s effort to describe his experience in the Holocaust and the anguish it caused him is effectively conveyed through his diction and tone. While illustrating his emigration to Auschwitz, Wiesel’s diction reveals a disturbed and solemn tone. Nearing Auschwitz, Elie witnesses a horrific event that changes his view of the world and its people, “With my own eyes…children thrown into the flames” ( Wiesel 32.) Wiesel’s diction clearly shows the burning of mere children easily disturbed him. Through Wiesel’s wording, we understand he was greatly astonished how the Nazis killed children without hesitation. Traumatized by the arrival, Wiesel conveys his thoughts about his first night in Auschwitz, “never shall I forget that …show more content…
Being evacuated, the Jews were sent to a new camp, “We were tormented with hunger. We had eaten nothing” (100.) The author’s diction convoys a dramatic tone. His words show pain caused by the SS, starving them and continuing them to march. After the death of his father, Elie reports, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not, I was out of tears” (112.) The way he could not cry for his father show how much pained it caused him. Unable to cry for his father was very dramatic. Not seeing himself in months, Elie had an unsurprising reaction, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (115.) The way Wiesel saw himself delivers a despairing tone. His diction reveals a dramatic tone to the readers because of how much anguish his experience in the camps caused him. Wiesel’s diction at the end of his autobiography connotes a dramatic and despairing

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