Night Blog #1

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Prompt: Writing style, Misunderstood characters

 Wiesel has a very unseen writing style. He focuses on his views from the time he wrote the story and when he was a young man. From the memoirs that I have read, authors tend to focus on only one point of view. For example, if something were to happen during their childhood, that is the only thing they focus on; how they assumed things were when they were children. Elie Wiesel writes about what happened in reality and what processed through his mind during that time.

  From the people that we have been introduced to, many seem to be misunderstood. When Moche the Beadle was taken because he was a foreign Jew, he saw terrible things. Infants were being thrown as targets, people were killed. This is a traumatizing sight for anyone, so of course it changed Moche the Beadle. Before he was taken, he was a calm man. He stayed out of people's way and people respected him for that. Now in his return, he is seen as a madman. He attempts to share his story with everyone, trying to warm them, but he is only ignored and seen as if he wants pity. I feel really bad for him because he is probably suffered PTSD and these people making him seem like the bad person really doesn't help.

  Another person that we are introduced to is Madame Schächter. She is a fifty-year old woman that is on board the train with her ten-year-old son. I think she starts hallucinating because of the conditions that the Jews are going through. She begins screaming of a fire and a furnace even though there is no fire visible. This scares the other people on board but I think what they did was the same thing as they did with Moche the Beadle; label her as crazy. Labeling these two characters as mad gives the other people comfort even though deep inside that the worst is yet to come.