Comparing The Things They Carried And Night By Elie Wiesel

World War II was caused by the instability in Europe during the decades following World War I. Germany, still recovering from the economic and political ruins that World War I left it in, began remilitarizing and forming alliances with nations such as Italy and Japan, who shared plans for world domination. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime used Germany’s vulnerability to their advantage, and quickly rose to power. Hitler began his conquest when he invaded Poland in 1939, which brought Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Until 1944 the war raged through Europe, claiming more lives than any previous war. The recorded casualties range between 40-60 million people, 6 million of which were Jews murdered in Nazi death camps, a period

I learned that more than just people die in wars. I learned that war brings much more pain than just physical pain. I learned that being indifferent is the worst approach to an issue. In Night, Wiesel often discusses God and his relationship with him. At one point Wiesel declares that God dies at the gallows. To Wiesel and thousands of other Jews, it was probably true for them. How could their God expect their faith to be strong enough to endure the torture of the Holocaust? In The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, a soldier is killed by the war. The death was not an ordinary one. The soldier hung himself because he had been at war, but he had not killed himself. The emotional pain and mental agony he suffered from the war killed him instead. Above all, I learned not to be indifferent towards situations that matter. Millions of lives could have been saved if people had not just stood idle. The photograph above amplifies my feelings on the subject. An entire village and its villagers could have been saved if people in an entirely different country had done something to stop