Double Genre in On Wiesels Night

Double Genre in On Wiesels Night The holocaust was a devastating time in history.During this time the Jews felt a great deal of afflictionand millions of them were killed. The poem "We will never forget Aushwitz" by Alexander Kimel and "On Wiesel's Night" by Thomas E. Thorton use the poetic elements symbolism, imagery, and metaphor to show the monstrosity of the holocaust.In the poem "On Wiesel's Night" by Thomas E. Thorton, Thorton says he cannot teach the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. Thorton uses the image of people being turned into smoke and riding the wind to show how the Jews were incinerated and killed for no reason. Thorton acquaints the baton used in Night for selections and uses a metaphor to compare it to a pointer of death because it pointed to death or work in the novel. Thorton also uses symbolism and shows the bouncing baton bouncing from left to right and how it hurt him emotionally by saying it stabbed him in the heart.English: Aushwitz I crematoria memorial