Elie Wiesel’s Night recounts his horrifying experiences as a Jewish boy under Nazi control, and the effect the Holocaust had, not just for the Jews, but to overall to humanity. The disturbing disregard for human beings, still to this day, induces consternation, and the Nazis’ gruesome actions has scarred mankind eternally. The Jews, as Elie Wiesel describes in Night, had to overcome numerous difficulties: they are forced to abandon their homes, all their personal possessions, and eventually their humanity. The Jews were separated from their families, Such as Elie, who never saw his mother and sister Tzipora again. Elie's suffered in the concentration camp of Auschwitz for 4 years before finally being liberated, having his faith shaken and lost his innocence, as shown in this quote, “I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded – and devoured – by a black flame” (Wiesel). This quotes was Elie’s reaction of spending one night the concentration camp. The experience has completely altered Elie’s identity, and prematurally taking away his innocence, becoming no longer a child, but as a survivor, and causing a loss in his faith of God’s…show more content… His tone and diction are powerful for this subject and envelope the reader, as he uses many forms of figurative language to convey his purpose. The use of such descriptive literary language still poses an obstacle to understanding the true nature of his experiences, although his tone with the figurative language provides us with many shockingly detailed images. Elie Wiesel’s use of irony is a predominant part of his memoir. There are different forms of irony, and Night encompasses the three types of irony: dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal