Night vs. Life is Beautiful

In life many people go through many of the same challenges and they have a different story to tell about the same event. Two types of stories have come out unto the world. One of them is the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, and the other is the movie, Life is Beautiful, and both of the stories is from a person who went through the Holocaust. Night is about a twelve year old boy who goes through the camp Auschwitz and in Life is Beautiful it is about a young boy also going through the camp. The movie, Life is Beautiful, and the book, Night, by Elie Wiesel, are similar in hope and plot, but they are different in the ending and the tone used.

Both Night and Life is Beautiful have hope throughout the whole story. In Night a lot of the hope came from having Elie and his father together throughout the majority of the camp. Likewise, in Life is Beautiful, both the father and son where together in the camp and were the main reason to keep going and not to go insane. Besides the affect family had, music also had a lot to do with hope. After Elie had ran in the snow for many, many miles him and others were put into barracks that were crushed in on top of each other. During this time of people dying on top of each other, Juliek was able to sneak out and play Beethoven on his violin and gave hope to the men through music. In Life is Beautiful music was also used for gaining hope. When Guido was serving, at the dinner, he switched the music to a song that was him and his wife’s song. He opened the window and pointed the record player speaker to outside so that his wife could hear the song and find hope. Both of these people found hope in things that meant a lot to them and kept them moving forward.

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...ve him humanity and the encouragement to not give up. On the other hand in, Night, Elie lost his humanity and did not show his feelings. He would not cry even if he saw people being killed. When you compare both of these stories side by side if has a drastic difference between happiness and depression.

Both Night and Life is Beautiful was about the Holocaust; they are also about dealing with hardships. The similarities and differences show the different ways people went through this hard time and how they would have to deal with it. It shows that a lot of people can go through the same thing but it is their perspective on the situation that makes a big difference in the end. Both, Night, and , Life is Beautiful, have the same message in hope and plot aspect, but is a different story because of the actual end of the story and how the people acted throughout it.