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    The document discusses the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a semi-autobiographical work by the Canadian-born Nobel Prize-winning author born in 1931. The passage analyzes elements of the novel such as the use of pathetic fallacy, a shift to direct address of the reader, personification of demons, settings during the Great Depression and war times, and themes of finding meaning through isolation and illness represented by the night.

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    The document discusses the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a semi-autobiographical work by the Canadian-born Nobel Prize-winning author born in 1931. The passage analyzes elements of the novel such as the use of pathetic fallacy, a shift to direct address of the reader, personification of demons, settings during the Great Depression and war times, and themes of finding meaning through isolation and illness represented by the night.

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    Night Alice Munro

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    The document discusses the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a semi-autobiographical work by the Canadian-born Nobel Prize-winning author born in 1931. The passage analyzes elements of the novel such as the use of pathetic fallacy, a shift to direct address of the reader, personification of demons, settings during the Great Depression and war times, and themes of finding meaning through isolation and illness represented by the night.

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    Night  semi autobiographical

    - Canadian
    - Nobel prize for literature
    - Born 1931  still alive  born pre ww2 – heard the stories

    - Line 2  Pathetic fallacy

    Cancer would not have been thought of  relatively modern cause for
    concern

    Shift to direct address in line 76  engages the reader


    Line 86 internal monologue

    Demons in line 151 personification : voices ?

    Closeness with her dad he gets her.

    Indirect speech  her rhetorical question

    Setting  not well of


    Great depression
    War  rations
    Language is clear
    Detailed description  but mainly about the night  not much info abt day
    Negative lexis
    Not dealing well with life  grumpy

    Title
    Night is where she has all her issues
    Night is her release
    Symbol of death isolation and illness
    Story is her quest to find meaning

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