Question

How does Wiesel's choice of genre prove beneficial in the excerpt?

Answer 1

In all of his writings, Elie wiesel always choose memoir/fiction as his genre.
Including the fact that he based it on his own life (for those who don't know, Elie wiesel is a survivor of holocaust and write books about it), it helped people empathize and can easily accept his point of view toward the incident.

Answer 2

Elie Wiesel is a writer, teacher and activist who is know for the memoir Night, in which he relays his experiences surviving the Holocaust. Most of his writing are in the fiction, memoir and autobiography genres. His choice of genre proves beneficial by sharing with the reader his own sentiment about the Holocaust.

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