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

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