A Rhetorical Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who is one of many in his community taken to the Nazi concentration camps. In Night, Elie's narrative recounts the horrors of his nightmarish Holocaust experience. On page eleven, Elie says: “(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)” Elie shares the foreshadowing of his father’s death with the reader as a man, for at this point in the story, when Elie is fifteen years old, it has yet to happen. Also, the narrator uses parenthesis to indicate a break in the story, and return the reader the present day. In addition, the lack of quotation marks also help indicate that Elie is speaking as a man, and shows that the statement was not made by Elie in 1944, and is not apart of the dialogue between Elie