Book Night Comparison

Over six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and the odds of dying in a concentration camp were almost certain. If you happened to be a very young child, the chance of getting killed in one of those camps was absolute. Some survived through the horrors, like Elie Wiesel, while others weren't so fortunate. Luckily, written evidence with different perspectives of the Holocaust, thanks to books like Night written by Elie Wiesel, and visual representations, like the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, allow us to have a constant reminder and never forget the horrors. There were many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the book Night, the two most important similarities are that both of the main characters are children that are “out of the loop” and the two also have many examples of

Before that though, nobody shared their worries with him about Hitler or his plans for the Jews. Even after Moishe the Beadle warned them nobody listened, “Moishe was not the same. The joy in his eyes was gone. He no longer sang. He no longer mentioned either God or Kabbalah. He only spoke of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen” (Wiesel 7). Maybe the people around Elie were nervous to share their worries about the future with him or they themselves were in denial, but Elie was definitely sheltered from the truth. Another child affected by being “out of the loop” would be Bruno from the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In fact, Bruno was so sheltered that he never even realized that he was less than a mile away from an actual concentration camp and the danger of them. If Bruno knew the risk of sneaking into the concentration camp he would’ve still been alive at the end. Being sheltered and “out of the loop” negatively affected both Elie and