Night is a book reflected through the author’s emotions—visually, mentally, and physically. These emotions are condensed within the theme of Night, which was his loss of religious faith. The theme itself was reflected off the author’s experiences, hence the necessity of author’s craft. Elie Wiesel’s experiences of losing his father (physically and mentally) and watching innocent adults and children die (visually and physically) develops how the author is telling the story. In his loss of religious faith, he questioned God: “Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the Universe, the All-Powerful and Terrible was silent. What do I have to thank Him for?”(Page 30) as to why all of these innocent people were to die, especially without a decent purpose amongst a total Jewish genocide. Wiesel uses different forms of author’s craft to convey meaning and significance to the reader of these events, based off of first hand account. How …show more content…
In literary craft, the author uses literary devices to convey, and describe what an event was like, or how their reaction was during the event. A metaphor used in Night: “He looked at us as one would a pack of leprous dogs clinging to life” (Page 36), a comparison between the block and a pack of leprous dogs in order to describe their present condition. Wiesel also uses personification in the quote: “The word "chimney" here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke.”(Page 39 Online, Page 36 in Book). The author uses “mingled” to modify chimney, which in turn was used as a direct object or as if it had human qualities. Structural Craft. In structural craft, Wiesel’s structure use in the book of Night was prolific with dialogue structures such as: “‘Here, kid, how old are you?’ It was one of the prisoners who asked me this. I could not see his face, but his voice was tense and weary. ‘I’m not quite fifteen yet.’ ‘No. Eighteen.’ ‘But I’m not,’ I said. ‘Fifteen.’ ‘Fool. Listen to what I