Night

 Elie Wiesel's memoir Night is his record of his experiences during the Holocaust. In the preface he says that, “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." He tells his story to remember the dead and to show what it was like to be controlled by nasty people. He uses a range of techniques such as first person narration, strong negative verbs and a metaphor. His writing had a big emotional impact on me, making me feel scared and terrified, awful and sad.

"If a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmate's lives. But we no longer feared death, in any event, not this particular death." Elie uses first person narration, using the pronoun 'we' to show how he and the other prisoners weren't afraid of the bombs but of the conditions they were currently in. The bombs gave them hope and faith in being saved. However this quote, made me feel scared and terrified.

The part of the death march that affected me the most was when Elie's friend Zalman was killed because he stopped to go to the toilet, "He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us." Elie uses the strong negative verb 'trampled' to show how his friend's death was violent and horrible. This part made me feel awful because I would not want to be in that situation and I feel like it would be a really slow, painful death.

At the end of the war after the camp was liberated, Elie looks at himself in a mirror for the first time since the ghetto, "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me." Elie uses a metaphor, describing himself as a 'corpse' to show the effect the war has had on him. He would have been very, very skinny and he did not feel emotions. It makes me feel sad because I feel that you would find it hard to look at yourself in the mirror and would wonder why you had to go though this, feeling scarred and numb with memories that you can't escape from. 

Night by Elie Wiesel is about World War II and a story about a man who was captured and taken to concentration camps by force. It shows racism and the horrors of World War II. In his story he uses techniques such as first person narration, strong negative verbs and a metaphor. His writing made me thankful for my life, reading his story and everything that he had to go through, like the concentration camps, shootings, bombings, lack of food and water and the cramped places, showed me that I am lucky that I have not had to go through this. I feel very small compared to