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Compare And Contrast See It Through And Night

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Introduction:
Ron Rash once said “I have to come to understand the world will have its way with us despite what we might wish, or might believe.” Ron Rash had similar experiences to both of the authors’ Elie Wiesel and Edgar Guest, since they both had something relating to never giving up even if times are hard and you may not survive. The two poems “Night” and “See it Through” are both great pieces of writing and have similar and differences in their writings’ such as for tone, and imagery.
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“Night” by Elie Wiesel the two authors’ use of imagery is similar because they both include visual imagery. An example of this similarity in “Night” is “Her little boy was crying, clinging to her skirt, trying to hold her hand.” The imagery he includes helps to create a visual of the mother and son. An example of this is in the poem “See it Through” by Edgar Guest is “Black may be the clouds about you.” The imagery by Edgar Guest uses makes the reader visualize the clouds and how black they are and how they are above you. Both of these pieces of writing use similar …show more content…

An example of this difference in the novel “ Night” is “Too late to save your old father . . .” . This tone conveys attitude toward his experience during the Holocaust because it makes the Eilizer wanna give up on his father, and think that since these things that happened to him make it ok for him to just let his father die. An example of this in the poem “See it through” is “Don’t give up, whatever you do; Eyes front, head high to the Finish. See it through!” This tone expresses the author’s feelings toward fear by making the audience wanna be more headstrong and make them feel like they could do anything they

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