Compare And Contrast Life Is Beautiful And Night

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“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” This quote from Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, describes the Inhumane acts preformed in the holocaust. After reading Night and watching "Life is Beautiful", the two stories are the same and differ in their own ways. In the novel Night and in the film "Life is Beautiful", the similarities and differences are shown through how humans are treated by one another, the father and son relationships, and the overall mood in both stories. The difference in how humans treat one another of both stories seems to be black and white. In Night we see characters do absurd things in order to survive. One of the most shocking events that occurred is when one of …show more content…

In Night, the relationship between Elie and his father seems to flow both ways. What this means is that Elie looks after his father and his father looks after him. In the beginning of the book, Elie lies to the concentration camp officials about his age just to stay close to his father (Wiesel, 2006). This shows that Elie loves his father and would like to stay near him in order to take care of him when he becomes languid. Toward the end of Elie's fathers life, he gives Elie his only two possessions which were a spoon and a knife (Wiesel, 2006). His father knew it was not much, but he knew that Elie would be able to use it and it would be something Elie would remember him by. In "Life is Beautiful", more of a "one way" relationship is conveyed between father and son. The film shows Guido looking out for Joshua trying to protect his innocence from the truth ("Life is Beautiful", 2000). Joshua is unable to look out for his father because he is so young unlike Elie. Both boys love their fathers, but show it in two different

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