In all of his writings, Elie wiesel always choose memoir/fiction as his genre.
Including the fact that he based it on his own life (for those who don't know, Elie wiesel is a survivor of holocaust and write books about it), it helped people empathize and can easily accept his point of view toward the incident.
Ensnarece that gives the word it’s suspended syllables
The answer is simile because it used the word as while comparing.