Night by Elie Wiesel represents many terrifying truths that has sadly happened during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel supports his main theme multiple times by using many literary devices such as irony and hyperboles to strengthen his message; he gives the reader a more complex , and vivid depiction of the theme. Elies most important and vital human connections are his family or more specifically his father. Sadly as his father began to weaken Elie started to expect him to die and leave him all alone which made him lose his spirit, and determination to survive. Night holds many strong, and powerful themes but one particularly important one is that one must have human connections to have strength and remain sane: these human connections could be …show more content…
One of the most basic human abilities is to love , and grieve but as you can see it seems that Elie has been damaged so much that his way of thought has changed into someone that is actually happy that someone they love had died so they would no longer be encumbered by him. Similarly there is another instance where Elie's humanity is shown to have been greatly altered, and that's when in the end of the novel Elie is looking at himself in the mirror pondering. “ From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.” (109). Notice how he uses a hyperbole here as well by explaining how the look in this person's eyes has never left him to emphasize the effect of the …show more content…
Sadly Elie was not able to protect himself from being affected from the holocaust but it shows us that we must take care of our family, and friends, not only because it's the right thing to do but, to remain sane and be able to think clearly when you are