Elie Wiesel's Most Apparent Style

Wiesel’s Most Apparent Style.

Elie Wiesel grew up in a family of six, his father, mother, eldest sister Hilda, Bea, the second eldest, and his younger sister Tzipora. Elie Wiesel wrote numerous books throughout his life. One, for example, is his book, “Night”, which centers around his experience through the Holocaust as a Jew. He describes the grueling details of his forced labor and even the loss of his family. As a result, we can recognize the Holocaust as a whole as very caustic. We acknowledge many contributing factors, but the largest was the growth of a military and political dictator, Adolf Hitler. His road to power was based on the idea that the Germans’ economic and other national deficiencies were caused by the Jewish populations.

Wiesel formulates this style with a number of style devices, but particularly capital words heading his sections, narrations of a later Eliezer Wiesel, and the use of original languages. When you read “Night”, you read through a process which lasted for almost four whole years, and this implies we will need to skip through time. Wiesel uses capital letters to head off his sections in order to pass time more efficiently and only include the most vital details. One example of this from “Night” was written, “WINTER HAD ARRIVED”. The days became short and the nights all- most unbearable. From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip”(Wiesel 76). When Eliezer Wiesel wrote this, he linked the previous topic to the current short and concise. The strategy allows the author to implement the most important topics, decreasing the fluff, like the quote where it transitions from the loss of the most religious member to the expanded severity of the event as winter encroaches. Wiesel uses the same device throughout the book, “"FATHER, ARE YOU THERE?" I asked as soon as I was able to utter a word”(Wiesel 93). From this quote we can extract the other applications of the device, as it is able to provide quick time