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Brutality, dehumanization. These are things Elie Wiesel reveals in Night. It bring the audience to the realization that humanity isn't always humane.
Elie uses motifs to express his message. He used the motif of food, specifically bread. Night states,"Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle" (95). This proves Elie's message because the workmen purposely through the bread to dehumanize the prisoners. As a result they began to fight like animals.
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Irony is also used in Night. Elie says, "So that they'll realize there were men living here and not pigs"(80). This is extremely ironic considering the context of the book. The entire purpose of the camp was to dehumanize the prisoners in order to make them seem like animals.
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Another technique used in Elie Wiesel's memoir was imagery. It explained the inhumane ways of fellow prisoners. Night expresses imagery by stating,"...he had wanted to get rid of his father! He had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival"(87). A young boy abandoned his father for his own well being. This is an incredibly inhumane action that reveals the message Elie is trying to convey.
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Wiesel explains how once his humanity was inhumane. The repetition of staying with his father was abandoned. The book states,"...I might perhaps have found something like- free at last"(106). This is what was written to describe Elie's feeling towards his own father's death.
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