Point of View

     Elie Wiesel's Night is told from a first person perspective, from the authors own perspective. The author chose to tell the story this way, because it was a memoir of the author himself (a young Jewish person), who had been to and survived the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. The author chose this perspective as then the reader could get the story told first hand, as it is told from the point of view of someone who has experienced the horrors of this said death camp, not someone interpreting what happens, from their own point of view.

     Personally, I would not change the point of view. My reasoning for this is that you only get to know what the character knows at the same time as the character: you don't have someone saying what is happening elsewhere in the story, it is just what the main character's retelling of what he saw/experienced, which adds to the reality that this really happened.

Character Traits

Guy Montag from the novel Fahrenheit 451 is a very proud of his job, as "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed"(Bradbury 3) and gives the impression of an arrogant person as well. He enjoys his job, as he likes to burn things. Also, it is possible that he has a relatively weak stomach, as "'Leave that stuff in the blood and the blood hits the brain like a mallet, bang, a couple thousand times and the brain just gives up, just quits.'
'Stop it!' said Montag.
'I was just sayin','said the operator.
'Are you done?' said Montag." (Bradbury 15)
Guy Montag is also very observant. When he has just left his shower, he feels that someone is in the waiting room of the fire station. He sees that "...someone had been there. The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there..."

Stock Character

Justin Hammer, from Iron Man 2 would be a good example of a stock character. We are took that he is a wealthy businessman, who is looking to further his profits in his trade. What we assume based on the "rich person" stereotype is that he is egotistical, arrogant, and probably has a lot of unnecessary belongings (more than likely including an over sized house).

Justin Hammer is seen at 1:30

Tone and Mood

 The mood created at the beginning of Elie Wiesel's memoir Night is one of fear and hopelessness. How I know that this is the mood, is a Jewish rabbi is telling people that the Gestapo are killing Jews in a nearby city, they are on there way to the the main characters town, in Transylvania. Soon after wards, the Gestapo arrive at the main characters city and begin to raid the town for valuables and the like.

"They (the Jews) were made to dig huge graves.And when finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners."  Wiesel, pg. 4

"...Tobias, the tailor, who had begged to be killed before his sons..."   Wiesel, pg. 4

"...their (the Hungarian police's) blows falling upon old men and women, children and invalids alike."   Wiesel, pg. 14

MLA Citation:
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bantam, 1982. Print.