The literary device, author's voice, is an author's individual writing style. It is a combination of diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text. There are many examples of how the author's voice influences the meaning of a text in the classic book, Night, a book about the life and thoughts of a young Jewish boy going through the Holocaust, as well as in “A Spring Morning,” a short story about the results of having a child while Germany is in control of Poland. These examples include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author writes about someone being told to obey, and when the author writes about a loved one dying. The first time I noticed how the author's voice affected the meaning of the text is when an author uses foreshadowing. This occurs in chapter 1 of Night, “Well, behold, see! What did we tell you? You wouldn't believe it. Here are your Germans! What do you think of them? Where is their famous cruelty” (Wiesel 7)? This is a great example of how the meaning of the text is influenced by the author's voice. The author uses rhetorical questions, questions asked solely to produce an effect or to make a statement and not to elicit a response. It also uses foreshadowing (to show or indicate ahead of time) to help give us an idea of ​​the meaning of the text. The meaning of the text in the quote is to show how the optimists of Sighet believed that the Germans were good and how they rub it in the face of people who thought the Germans were evil and sinister. It also serves to give us a clue as to what the future holds. Another example of how the author's voice influences the meaning of a text while using foreshadowing is in the first paragraph of “A S...... middle of the paper ......g away. He approached slowly and those few steps seemed infinite. He bent down, picked up the child, stroked the tangle of blond hair” (Fink 61). The author made the text slow, making the meaning of the text hit us more deeply and openly showing us how cruel and evil people can be. The reaction to the death is sadness, which is very different from the reaction Elie has to his father's death, which is relief. The literary tool, the author's voice, influences the meaning of a text in almost everything you read. This is especially true of the classic book Night and the short story “A Spring Morning.” Some examples of when the text is influenced by the author's voice include: when the author is foreshadowing, when the author is writing about someone he is told to obey what another person is saying, and when the author is writing about a loved one who dies.