The First Night Changes Everything “I will never forget that night, the first night in camp, which turned my life into one long night sealed seven times” (Wiesel 32). Wiesel uses the symbolism of night to express death, darkness, and evil that began from the first night. In his memoir Night, Wiesel uses a distinct writing style to express what he experienced, how he changed, and how it affected the rest of his life, in the concentration camps, during the Holocaust. He uses techniques like irony, imagery, symbolism, and poetic syntax to describe his story of surviving the Holocaust. By applying these techniques, Wiesel projects a tone of bitterness, confusion, and sorrow into his story. Through his writings, Wiesel gives us a window into the complete abandonment of reason that he embraced and lived in during the Holocaust. Wiesel uses irony to emphasize the lack of normality in the concentration camps. As he enters Auschwitz, he notices a sign with the caption "Beware danger of death" and he wonders: "was there a single place here where you were not in danger of death" (137). He just walked into a place where people are putting up signs that are trying to prevent people from dying, but at the same time the goal of these camps was to kill millions of people. Another use of irony is when the prisoners are crowded onto the train. Mrs. Schachter screams about a fire and how everyone is going to be burned. No one believes her, but that's what's really happening. People arrive at the camp and some are immediately taken to the gas chambers, killed and then burned. When Wiesel's foot was injured, he was hospitalized. Here he is talking about how the Russians are coming and he is desperate to improve so he can learn... middle of paper... the Eethoven Concerto in this crowded hangar. Wiesel confuses us further by presenting an event that may or may not have occurred in his writings and making us decide its validity. It also leaves us with a feeling of awe as we marvel at an unlikely source of beauty in such a loathsome place. Through his use of irony, contrast, and unrealistic descriptions, Wiesel creates a memory that we both avoid and feel the deepest attraction to. towards. He skillfully creates in us a feeling of confusion by oscillating between two poles in the description of his experiences and underlines the irrationality of the concentration camps with an ironic tone. However, through all the suffering Eliezer faces, he tries to shine through the ugliness with beauty both through his memories and his writing style. Wiesel writes a masterful memoir that will leave a deep impression on anyone.