“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…
the boys betrays his own father. On their way to Glewitz, Rabbi Eliahou's son chooses to speed up and run ahead because he fears that his older father is holding him back and could potentially cause him his own life (Wiesel, 2006). This just shows that humankind is selfish and that someone will throw away an important relationship just for a better shot at living. In the film "Life is Beautiful" we see the exact opposite. Here we see fellow prisoners helping out Guido while he tries to remain halcyon. They go along with his plan to make Joshua think that the Holocaust is nothing more than a game. When returning from the infirmary, Bartolomeo says he got points deducted from himself just for getting hurt ("Life is Beautiful," 2000). Bartolomeo keeps in mind that Guido is only trying to protect his son from the truth. He knows that Guido is trying to be the best father he can be given the circumstances and essentially is looking out for Joshua to help a fellow prisoner. The father and son relationships in Night and "Life is Beautiful" are very important elements in each story.
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
ways. Despite taking place in one of the darkest time periods of history, the mood in Night and "Life is Beautiful" are extremely different. The mood of Night seems to stay constant in how depressing and dark it is. For example when Elie describes the babies being burned and fellow Jews being placed in the furnaces (Wiesel, 2006). Elie and his father endure the harsh circumstances of the holocaust and in the book the mood only gets more depressing. In "Life is Beautiful" the mood is not as depressing as in Night. The film still shows the hardships prisoners face, but it is often followed up with comic relief from Guido. Moments before Guido is taken and shot, he is shown marching in a funny way making Joshua laugh ("Life is Beautiful", 2000). Guido's jocular attitude provides a break from the harshness of the situation and allows the mood to be lightened up. The holocaust was one of the most horrific events ever to occur. The novel Night and the film "Life is Beautiful" portrays this event in two different ways. The things faced in both stories appear to have the same common thread. The book and film both deal with how people treat one another, father and son relationships and the overall mood of sadness. Both Night and "Life is Beautiful" provide a very good idea of how concentration camp life was.
The book, Night, by Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel, entails the story of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps all around Europe. Around the middle of the 20th century in the early 1940s, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army traveled around Europe in an effort to exterminate the Jewish population. As they went to through different countries in order to enforce this policy, Nazi officers sent every Jewish person they found to a concentration camp. Often called death camps, the main purpose was to dispose of people through intense work hours and terrible living conditions. Wiesel writes about his journey from a normal, happy life to a horrifying environment surrounded by death in the Nazi concentration camps. Night is an amazingly
“My father's presence was the only thing that stopped me. He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. I had no right to let myself die. What would he do without me? I was his sole support.” This quote from the book night represents the father son relationship in the book written by Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a famous writer and a Holocaust survivor. He wrote many nonfiction books, and night being one of his most successful. Through this book, Elie Wiesel indicated that when night came bad things happened. Elie, a young Jewish boy, and his family were forced into small ghettos by Nazis during World War II. Elie and his family later departed to the unknown were the Nazis sent them to a concentration camp in Auschwitz.
When the Holocaust happened there were many Jews killed due to gas chambers and fires that hid their remains. The book Night is about Elie wiesel (a survivor of the Holocaust) and what had happened to him in auschwitz. Elie wiesel is an actual survivor of the holocaust who wrote this book to show the horrors of auschwitz. He was very changed after he came out of the concentration camp known as Auschwitz(the biggest concentration camp during the holocaust). In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, was affected by the events in the book because he didn't care if he died, he wasn't mournful over death, and he was psychologically affected.
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, a bunch of relationships change dramatically according to Elie. This novel shows many changes with people that really affects the story. His relationship with with his father is the biggest change of all. It can be seen from the beginning to the end. Elie’s relationship with God changes as well. He had strong faith in God but yet as the story goes on, the camp starts to affect him and slowly loses faith. Another is the relationship with his friends. As the the story progresses, he slowly grows apart. He became more more independent except for being with his father.
Night by Elie Wiesel was a memoir on one of the worst things to happen in human history, the Holocaust. A terrible time where the Nazi German empire started to take control of eastern Europe during WWII. This book tells of the terrible things that happened to the many Jewish people of that time. This time could easily change grown men, and just as easily a boy of 13. Elie’s relationship with God and his father have been changed forever thanks to the many atrocities committed at that time.
I find that the relationship between Eliezer and his father experience to demonstrate a switch in roles during their time in concentration camp. The dark conditions were a void to all of the relationships in camp. Eliezer ’s book Night depicts the life a father and a son going through immeasurable, suffering and testing their bond as a family.
In “Night” it shows through all the hardships Elie had face the only person that kept him going was his father ,because he is all he had left. For example, the family had a total of three chances to escape ,but didn’t due to the father’s role in the community. The consequence of this is that his family and numerous others are sent to the concentration camps. This effected into the separation between men and women, and is the last time young Elie will ever see his mother and his little sister ,Tzipora. This resulted in Elie not wanting to lose his father ,for he had lost all of his sisters and his mother. When Elie's father dies, Elie had no one and nothing left; all he
Change is an unpredictable and inevitable thing. One cannot know what alteration it may bring but it can, without doubt, be expected said Hazel M, an Honor English student (par.1). Eliezer, the protagonist in Night, encounters change numerous times. One of the mainly considerable changes he comes across, while in the concentration camps, is that of his relationship with his father. Before the Holocaust, Eliezer’s relation with his father was very distant, I will say non existent. Throughout the novel, enormous remarkable changes occurred in the father son relationship between Eliezer’s and his father. To highlight a few, we will discuss Eliezer and his father’s emotional change, the connection between them as father and son, and how their build trust in their relationship. Eliezer’s relationship with his father is quite important as it allows them both to live through the anguish and despair brought upon them. And their love for each other helped them both stay alive during the course of torture that Jews people were put through.
“Even in darkness, it is possible to create light”(Wiesel). In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, the author, as a young boy who profoundly believed in his religion, experiences the life of a prisoner in the Holocaust. He struggles to stay with his father while trying to survive. Through his experience, he witnesses the changes in his people as they fight each other for themselves. He himself also notices the change within himself. In Night, it is discovered that atrocities and cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Elie himself also shows signs of becoming a brute for his survival, but escapes this fate, which is shown through his interactions with his father.
"Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, we feel that we are greater than we know."- William Wordsworth. As stated in this quote, when we have something to hope for, and someone showing us love, we are capable of many things. In the movie Life is Beautiful and the book Night love and hope are the only things that keep the characters alive. This is shown through Elie and his father's relationship when his father reminds him of his fundamental feelings of love, compassion, and devotion to his family. Then Elie and his father look out for each other in hope to make it out the concentration camp alive. Love and hope are also shown in the movie Life is Beautiful when Guido and his son were taken to the concentration camp. Here, Guido's love for his son Josh, kept him alive. Dora, Guido's wife, shows persistent hope which ultimately leads to being reunited with Joshua. In both stories the hope that of rescue and the love that for each other gets the main characters through terrible times.
The ground is frozen, parents sob over their children, stomachs growl, stiff bodies huddle together to stay slightly warm. This was a recurrent scene during World War II. Night is a literary memoir of Elie Wiesel’s tenure in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel created a character reminiscent of himself with Eliezer. Eliezer experienced cruelty, stress, fear, and inhumanity at a very young age, fifteen. Through this, he struggled to maintain his Jewish faith, survive with his father, and endure the hardships placed on his body and mind.
In the book Night, Elie’s father was very ill and he desperately needs help from his son. His father asked for water and wanted to talk with his son, but Elie refused to talk with him and give him some water. Also, he remained calm when his father was harassed by the guards. In the book, Elie said “Then I had to go to sleep”(Wiesel 112) and after his father’s death, the thing he said wasn’t about his sadness. It was about his freedom. He said, “Free at last”(Wiesel 112). Elie is not the old Elie anymore. Because of the circumstance of the camp, the pure and caring boy changed into a boy with an empty heart. Elie says “Since father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore”(Wiesel 113). His heart that was filled with joy and caring
Having a supportive father can help one drive for success. At the beginning of Night Elie’s bond with his father is weak but
Some take life for granted, while others suffer. The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, contains heart-wrenching as well as traumatic themes. The novel unfolds through the eyes of a Jewish boy named Eliezer, who incurs the true satanic nature of the Nazis. As the Nazis continue to commit inhumane acts of discrimination, three powerful themes arise: religion, night, and memory.
Elie’s loss of innocence and childhood lifestyle is very pronounced within the book, Night. This book, written by the main character, Elie Wiesel, tells the readers about the experiences of Mr. Wiesel during the Holocaust. The book starts off by describing Elie’s life in his hometown, Sighet, with his family and friends. As fascism takes over Hungary, Elie and his family are sent north, to Auschwitz concentration camp. Elie stays with his father and speaks of his life during this time. Later, after many stories of the horrors and dehumanizing acts of the camp, Elie and his father make the treacherous march towards Gliewitz. Then they are hauled to Buchenwald by way of cattle cars in extremely deplorable conditions, even by Holocaust standards. The book ends as Elie’s father is now dead and the American army has liberated them. As Elie is recovering in the hospital he gazes at himself in a mirror, he subtly notes he much he has changed. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie loses his innocence and demeanour because he was traumatized by what he saw in the camps, his loss of faith in a God who stood idly by while his people suffered, and becoming selfish as he is forced to become selfish in the death camps to survive.