Figurative Language in Night

The Holocaust made an impact on everybodys lives but Eli Wiesel has a maven of a kind point. In the novel night written by Eli Wiesel he shares to everybody about the hardships in concentration camps as a young boy. He describes some of the horrible events using fgurative dustup to distinctly show his experiences in the Holocaust. Eli uses night to convey the horrors he witnessed around him when the prisoners are on the frost cattle cars and also his first day in the camp.Eli uses figurative language to create a better image in your mind about what he is talking about. For example when the prisoners are on the cattle car during the freezing winter Eli mentions, The night was growing longer, never ending (98). Eli isnt Just saying that the nights are longer in time he is implying that the hardships he is going by means of are getting worse and longer. Everyone at times cannot express an event without using figurative language.For instance when Eli first arrives at the concentrat ion camp he sees things that he pass on never get out of his mind. Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp that turned my life into one long night (34). Here Eli is using night as all the hardships nd he states that his life is one long night. While all of the prisoners were hard-boiled like animals and forced to fit into cattle cars, Eli says The days resembled nights and the nights left in our souls(100).Eli is stating how the horrors everybody is experiencing are never ending and also never- ending in their souls. Throughout Elis story he frequently uses night in his figurative language to create an image of what all of the prisoners went through. The Holocaust changed lives all across the world showing that people will do horrible things and it also shows how strong people really are.