Describe Wiesel's style in Night.

The first person narrative nature of Night
is what helps to make it so powerful.  It can never escape the mind of the
reader that what is being read was actually experienced.  It was real.  It was alive. 
Wiesel's first person technique and style of narration allows it to happen. Wiesel's use
of juxtaposing flashbacks with post- Holocaust life also helps to make this effective in
displaying how such memories provide a hold on his psyche and his maturation throughout
consciousness.  Yet, on another level, I think that the style of using first person
narration in the frame of "Eliezer" is something powerful.  We never see the main
character referred to as Elie.  Yet, when we read the novella, we understand that the
author is Elie Wiesel.  In this divergence, another very telling element is revealed in
that there is some level of psychological distance between the horrific events of the
Holocaust and the survivors.  There will always be some distance between fully embracing
and absorbing what happened and the present experiences of living through it.  There is
a contradiction because survivors of such an experience never escape what happened to
them, indicating total immersion in it.  Yet, in the change in name, a stylistic
technique that reflects psychological depth, there is a reality that indicates
individuals can seek to find distance from that which will never leave them and their
memories.

The characters that help frame the narrative are
also significant in helping to bring out the themes of the novella.  The issues of
religious faith, community, and solidarity are evoked through characters.  How they are
treated are reflective of how these themes are developed.  Moshe the Beadle, Madame
Schachter, Akiba Drumer, and the little boy who took half an hour to die on the gallows
are all representative of this, characters who become more of stylistic devices to
develop and bring out themes.  In this way, their lives are more than that of a death
count on the Nazi mournful tally.  Rather, Wiesel gives them dignity in representing
themes that help to define how human beings treat one another and how human cruelty can
reach unspeakable proportions.