Something that I have noticed about both Night and Dawn is that unlike Dawn, Night is a nonfictional story that the author himself has experienced. It talks about all the hardships and obstacles Elie had to encounter while being in these concentration camps; including the death of his family. I feel like he deeply describes the situations of events very closely and analyzes them in such well content. He describes every moment as if the reader were right there with him, which I greatly admire in a book. The stories he converses about makes it seem as if the event was more intense and more compared to Dawn.
Dawn, on the other hand, was a fictional story that isn’t about Elie, but about another man who survived the Holocaust. Although this book had a lot more background story to the protagonist, the emotion applied into the told events were not as strong they were in Night. What I mean is that both books had very depressing and emotional stories imbedded into them, but the writing style of Night made it so that every word that was said made the story very gripping. In Dawn, however, I thought that the short events in it were not very interesting. The events were usually long and had not much lesson towards them in the end. I think the reason for this is that this is a fictional novel. Wiesel did not encounter this event himself, so the emotion while writing this was not as strong as in Night, when he actually did encounter those experiences. What do you think Abby? Do you think the emotion was as strong in Dawn as it was in Night?
The intensity from both books were different, but the writing in it is different as well. I enjoyed how Wiesel gave a little bit of mystery to who the narrator was at the beginning of the novel. Then later on, he reveals the character. This kind of writing is something I would enjoy reading again because it makes you wonder who is talking and why are they talking.
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