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Fire Symbolism In Night By Elie Wiesel

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Fire stands out the most because he used fire to foreshadow the ghettos and it's easier to spot and recognize when used symbolically. Night and death are commonly used in reference to the text, making it harder to distinguish them from words and symbols. Fire symbolizes Wiesel’s hellish experience in the ghettos with the SS officers, and he makes that very distinct when Mrs.Schächter was used to foreshadow their future. The foreshadowing becomes obvious when the author writes “Jews, listen to me,’ she cried. ‘I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames!’” (25). She claims to see fire and tries to warn everyone, but no one believes her, because it is not physically there. The author wanted us to see that it was going to get a lot worse than it currently

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