Similarities And Differences Between Jeanne And Elie

Jeanne and Elie have many similarities and differences. Not only did they both go through the same thing, but they also went through some very different experiences. Jeanna and Elie were around the same age and their emotions were somewhat different because of the different experiences.
Differences between Elie and Jeanna are, Elie was being warned by Moshe the Beadle and Jeanne was warned by her father, who had been warned by officers about being forced out of their home to go to a camp, which they had no idea about. Elie and his family had more time to get their belongings before leaving because it went by streets, while Jeanne’s family were just rushed out right then and there. Another difference is Elie had been very religious,

no matter what had been going on at any moment in time, god was all Elie looked towards for help or to praise him for already helping. Jeanna was not much on the religious side, it’s not that she did not believe in god it is just that she did not take much time to really pray. At one point in time Elie ends up going to the hospital for his foot and Jeanne never went to the hospital because she knew she would have been chosen. When Elie’s father gets beaten he does nothing because he knows that if he were to try and stop the SS officers that they would end up beating him too. That is opposite of what happens when the mother is being beaten by the dad, because the kid gets up and hits the dad in the face. One other thing is the blocks, for Elie the block was better than Jeanne’s because hers was not very clean, it was filled with sand and there were many holes, they also had to sleep on hay. At the end of the novels it is very different, Elie ends up alone because his father, mother, and sister end up dying. On the other hand for Jeanne, her family ends up living and they ride off in their dads new car.
Similarities between the two novels vary also. They both were taken away from their homes, having no idea where they were going or what was going to happen next. Their family gets split up but only Jeanne got to go back to hers. They both did the best they could do when being in the camps and watching others get beaten even their family. They both tried staying as hopeful as possible and try to find ways and ideas to help them live longer. Also another similarity is that they were both very close with their family and struggled being apart from each other. They were both guided by others and were given good advice by others in the camp how to stay alive and to look after yourself and even what to do and what not to do. Those are some similarities and differences about both of the novels.