Night Vs Sea Wolf

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Night vs. Sea Wolf

The content and the genre of Night and The Sea Wolf have absolutely nothing in common. Elie Weisel’s novel Night is a dramatic true-life story based upon his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp as a teenager. While Jack London’s novel The Sea Wolf, on the other hand, is a historical fiction novel that is based on one man’s fictional adventure on a seal hunting schooner captained by one of the world’s most ruthless men. Even though these books differ heavily in content they are extremely similar when it comes to their purpose and the stylistic elements they use to achieve this purpose. Elie Weisel’s novel Night and Jack London’s novel The Sea Wolf were written with the same purpose of demonstrating how cruel and inhumane man can be to other man. Even though both of these novels are very different as far as genre and content, they use very similar stylistic elements to achieve an identical purpose. Weisel and London use symbolism, development of character, and setting as their stylistic elements, which they use to achieve their purpose.
Elie Weisel and Jack London use very similar stylistic elements to achieve their purpose of showing how inhumane and cruel man can be to other man. The first stylistic element that they use is symbolism. Symbolism is defined as the representation of a meaning through an object or a person. The predominant symbol in each novel also happens to be the title of each novel. In Weisel’s novel Night, the predominant symbol is the time of “night.” When we think of “Night” we think of darkness, which is exactly what it symbolized in the novel as well. Night symbolized the darkness and despair of the Jews during their time in the Nazi concentration camps, their depression and their dark feelings. Whenever someone would get killed or something bad would happen in the novel it happen during the middle of the night. The word night was frequently repeated ...