A_Story_Of_Sorrow_&_Relief

A Story Of Sorrow & Relief Elie Wiesel uses repetition to create contradicting tones of sorrow and relief in the novel, Night. He feels so much pain and the memories only deepen his sorrow. Then when his father is taken away he is relieved that the “dead weight” is finally gone. Wiesel’s memories from the past caused him so much suffering that his mental anguish and sorrow is unbelievable. For example when he says, “Never shall I forget that nocternal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.” The silence of the terrified men stole everything from him. The silence also condemed him to sorrow and memories of those awful years. For instance when he says, “ Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.” The faith he had in God was taken away from him by those first flames. Everything he believed in was demolished in only a matter of minutes, but the memories still linger on. Wiesel will never be able to forget those painful memories of the silence or of the flames. Wiesel’s father was loved dearly, but he was thought of as a burrden and a father, sorrow, memories, silence, wiesel, taken, never, much, forget, flames, felt, being, away, worries, weep, through, shall, selection, says, relieved, relief, now, night, next, instance, held, getting, first, feels, faith, example, everything, burrden, because