NIght vs. Poisonwood Bible

The two books, Night and The Poisonwood Bible, carry the same general theme: change.

In both stories, the author’s primary goal is to obviously display how each situation would effect

the lives of those involved forever. Wiesel and Kingsolver do amazing jobs of almost physically

placing the reader into the situations by simply explaining the change that took place in the

hearts and minds of their characters. Night and The Poisonwood Bible are similar based on their

illustrations of change and the effects of the change, and differ in how the change motivates

Elie Wiesel, author of Night, uses his book as a means to provide, as vividly as he knows

how, an account of the change his life faced as a fifteen-year-old boy. The book begins with him

at home with his family solely as a point of comparison for the reader. Its only real purpose is

achieved by the time the reader reaches the end of the story and has an opportunity to reflect on

the complete transformation Wiesel underwent in only a year’s time.

Kingsolver sets up for this effect differently. Compared to Night, where the reader sees

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