#3 Define And Describe

The Main Elements Of Night

The five main elements used in Night novel are:

1. Conflict
2. Characters
3. Setting
4. Mood
5. Plot

1.) Conflict - The book takes place in Germany during WWII so conflict plays a huge role in the book. The main character and his father are in conflict with each other alot because they want whats best for each other they both want to survive and the decisions they make could mean the difference between life and death.

2.) Characters - The characters in the book are the basis for the story. This story is the real life account of a holocaust survivor. This young boy who was in the concentration camp lost his mother, sisters, and his father he had to make friends and find people who he could trust and those people play a very important role in this book.

3.) Setting - The setting for this book is in Germany in the concentration camps. The climate plays a big role in the book because Germany in the winter can get very cold and these people who all they had was a t-shirt and light pants had to endure the cold temperatures in the winter and many of them died from it.

4.) Mood - The mood in this book is very important. The author has made the mood in the book a very sad/depressing mood and it is very well written because the reader is is really drawn into the book and can better understand what it was like to be in the concentration camps in Germany.

5.) Plot - This book is a historical fiction and the plot is all based on real life events. The plot just helps to tell the reader what they had to endure and how certain events that happened effected the people in the camps and how they were dealt with.

Wiesel, Ellie. Night. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.