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.
It seems as if you put a lot of thought into this, I love reading and learning about WW2 and I would love to read this book is it from the bin??
ReplyDeleteYes it is. It is a pretty good book.
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