In The Heart Of The Sea Language Analysis

Night by Elie Wiesel and In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick are survivor stories shared about the Holocaust and the crash of the whaleship Essex, the protagonists are teenagers at the time of the events and survived. In the Heart of the Sea is about the crash of the whaleship Essex, the event that inspired Moby Dick (1851) with the main protagonist as the Cabin Boy, Thomas Nickerson and the Ship’s First Mate, Owen Chase. After a Sperm Whale crashes their ship, Essex, they make an attempt to survive with very little water or food and with the weather that comes and goes. Night is the memoir of the author, Elie Wiesel’s experience at multiple concentration camps and fighting to survive. He battles along with his father, and questions his relationship with his father and god. Although the writing styles are not the

same, one is a memoir that shares information only Wiesel would know , and one is in 3rd person telling information from a journal founded by the author, so it goes day by day without any information the reader can relate to; Night seems to be an easier read because of the fact Wiesel structures his sentences so well, you feel like you don’t miss anything, if you want a challenge, pay attention in The Heart of the Sea, overall it’s a good book, however it’s seems hard to grasp at everything the reader reading.
Night’s writing style is putting his worst experiences at several concentration camps in words.

His sentence structure is usually evasive or straightforward, so he can show what he’s trying to stress as important or unimportant, while using figurative language to try to make connections or make the reader create pictures in their minds. You can tell that this story is deeply personal, he connects the readers into the story and makes them picture themselves into his shoes, using figurative pathos to show his emotions. In the Heart of the Sea is based on the journal written by the cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson along with some information given by the author, so it’s not as personal as Night. The survival story really starts at Chapter 5, where the Sperm Whale crashed the Essex, and they have to survive on very little food and awful weather. The author does give information that might be helpful to some readers who don’t know any terminology, like one term on Chapter 8, “Cottonmouth”, which is when saliva becomes thick and foul-tasting; the tongue clings irritatingly to the teeth and the roof of the mouth; which all the crew had on Chase’s

boat.
What both Night and The Heart of the Sea has in common is both of the Protagonists are teenagers during these events. In Night, Wiesel mentions he’s fifteen when they first got to in the first concentration camp, Birkenau. However, the SS Officer at Birkenau didn’t like that at all, as noted on Pages 30-31 ‘“Hey, kid, how old are you?” “Fifteen” “No. You’re eighteen” “But I’m not.” I said “I’m fifthteen” “Fool. Listen to what I say.”... “Your age?”2 he asked, perhaps trying to sound parental. “I’m eighteen.” My voice was trembling.’. In The Heart of the Sea, Philbrick mentions that Nickerson was fourteen Nickerson was about to board a ship. This being quoted at the very beginning of Chapter one, “The moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for the first time. He was fourteen years old, with a broad nose and an open, eager face”1. Nickerson was around 16 years old when he got rescued, while Wiesel was around 22.
Night talks about Wiesel’s point of view when Elie was in the concentration camps, Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buchenwald. Elie and his family are first taken away from a town from Sighet in Northern Transylvania, which at the time got annexed by Hungary, and got transported into Nazi Germany. Night shows the conditions of how they were treated, how they were, even how they lived with a sub stories about how his relationship with his father and god. In The Heart of the Sea, it talks about the crash of Essex, and the what they did to survive, there is no boundaries at how explicit it will go, from swearing to how to kill and cook a tortoise. After the Sperm Whale crashed the whaleship Essex, they all go downhill from being trapped at sea and not having any clean food or water to getting hurt physically and mentally. Eventually, Night and In the Heart of the Sea characters does get rescued and taken back to normal society and not in such harsh conditions.
Night and In the Heart the Sea is great survivor stories, it shows the struggles they faced to survive. Although these are completely unalike events they do have a common, they tell the reader everything they go through like all the sores on their skins to dehydration and starvation. The writing style is completely different, but in both good ways, one gets up close and personal with the reader, one just states the details and gives you information you might need to know to understand the story. The events are important read because it’s important to read about the past, so you can prepare for the present. Maybe if something like the holocaust for a different religion happens again, you would know to leave that area so people wouldn’t have to go through what Wiesel went through, or be more prepared if you go out sailing, because history does repeat itself.