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Analysis Of Night By Elie Wiesel

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In the book Night the author uses repetition to create a tone in the passage, and that tone the author is trying to create is sadness. Elie shows sadness/disbelief in the book when he realizes that he might lose his life in the concentration camp. In the book we realize the author is using a phrase over and over again(repetition)to show a tone in the book, and the phrase he uses to show the tone is “Never shall I forget”. He uses the phrase and thinks back to things he would never forget because he realizes he might die in the concentration camps and this starts to create the tone of sadness. On page 34 it said “I thought: This is what the antechamber of hell must look like. So many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality” Elie starts

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