The Use of Literary Techniques in Elie Wiesel's "Night"

In Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night", Wiesel tells of his horrifying experience in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy of 15. Deported by the Nazis, Wiesel and his family were transported in cattle cars to Auschwitz where he and his father were separated from his mother and sister, who they never saw again. At this point he starts his excruciating journey into the terror of the holocaust. In portraying his story, Wiesel uses a variety of …

…power. He used the literary devices of foreshadowing, poetic language, and a first person point of view to increase the emotional intensity of its narrative. Wiesel, himself, has become famous across the globe, not only for his book, but also to for raising awareness of what truly occurred during World War II in the concentration camps. Wiesel truly was able to capture his experience during the Holocaust and describe it in a remarkable, powerful way.