Similarities Between Night And Daniel

Nacht and Daniel’s story are more different than they are similar

After reading both books, Night and Daniel’s story are more different than they are similar. Both books are set in the time period of the holocaust, or WW2. During this time period, Germany would expand their territory to Poland, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and other places. Later put into place, “The Nuremberg Laws” would take away the rights of European Jews. Captured Jews were brought to labor camps and would mostly likely die at the hand of the Germans after enduring many obstacles like starvation, weather, and sickness; However, through these ragged conditions, and these condescending people full of malice, some had held on to disputed their circumstances. Night

and Daniel’s Story captures the events that happened to, two individuals during the certain time period.

In Night by Elie Wiesel, it is his personal story of what happened and how he survived.

In his first account in the story, he is a young boy of 13 years, in the small town of Sighet, Transylvania; In Hungary. He is very religious and is ready to learn more about his faith. It is 1941, when some Jews are taken from Sighet. Years pass until Elie is 15 years old now; Hitler is hovering above European Jewish citizens with a iron fist. With the laws passed in Germany, the Holocaust begins, and The Germans invade foreign land in an attempt to purify the Aryan race. Germans appear in Sighet, and are polite and kind and take residence in multiple families homes. Slowly overtime Jews were labeled, then segregated into ghettos. Soon after Elie and his family learns of the transports to the labor camps. They are then transported; through this misfortune and grief, Elie loses his faith in god, and loses hope. This is where the story truly begins, in the labor camp of Birkenau. Elie and his father were stripped of all their possessions and given painful haircuts, as well as clothes equivalent by those of rags; Here the people are worked like dogs and Elie now endures the pain of the labor camps, both emotionally and physically. He loses sight of his mother and sister who are

never heard of again. Through multiple camps he has been, and multiple friends he has lost on the path to freedom. In this book the authors emotions and thoughts are perfectly explained, and portrayed, and his level of discomfort are completely genuine. It also explains the horrible fact that after the holocaust many peoples live were lost and ruined, and the Hitler really did succeed in exterminating the Jews in Europe. Multiple parts in Night explain the real life person of Elie Wiesel. Since at the camps there was a lot of toil and helplessness, time passed slowly and it would be a long while until something significant or horrifying would happen at the camps or to Elie personally. He finds himself in difficult situations he shouldn’t have to face. First because of a gold crown in his tooth he must have it removed or he would get beaten or killed. Weekly a “selection” is made to kill off the weak. In another part he has a foot infection and must make the choice whether to keep going, or die waiting for the Russians. These are some of the major obstacles Elie faced besides working daily in a labor camp. The events in Night are very different from the events in Daniel’s Story.

In Daniel’s Story the book recounts the events of the fictitious character known as Daniel, and the start and end of racial segregation against Jews in Europe.

Daniel is roughly the same age as Elie Wiesel, and they go through the some of the same things; They face a selection, they accompany their fathers at the camp and both want the sweet elixir of freedom. Daniel lives in Poland, which later gets invaded by the supreme force of Germany, and they plan on searching Poland for Jewish residents to send them into newly built ghettos, and labor camps. Daniel and is family are Jewish, and they first encounter Germany’s brutality through the shocking news that Daniel’s uncle was send to a crematorium and burnt alive. The news arrived in the form of ashes from the Germans. Daniel meets the love of his life Rosa, and they get involved in a resistance. Facing heaving German occupation in his area, Daniel’s family gets captured and sent to a labor camp. Like Night, his family is broken up, and Daniel stays with his father, however Daniel finds and reunites with his younger sister, who is found playing music for the Germans. They stay close until his sister is moved. He then picks up his old ways and joins a camp resistance taking pictures to send to the allies to get help. Later after the resistance’s carrier gets captured the leader is revealed and dies on his own terms in front of Daniel. Later the resistance grows, and plans to capture the camp. The attack is successful and

the Jews are free. Daniel and his group go home to search for loved ones and Daniel reunites with Rosa.

In total Night and Daniel’s Story are more different than each other because of the character’s obstacles and their emotional difficulties. By far Elie Wiesel faces more obstacles than Daniel’s character, as discussed, and in terms of emotional difficulties, In Night Elie Wiesel says in the end of the book that no-one can recover from something like this and that the series of events that happened to him has changed his perception permanently. The trauma of the camps daily life, of people dying daily can never be a normal or regular thing. People were getting slaughtered and in in the aftermath, everything that Elie had ever thought about had forever changed in his mind. In Daniel’s Story things turn out a bit different, seeing that Daniel doesn’t really seem in pain when loved ones are lost or happy when loved ones are found. Daniel’s emotions as a reader I didn’t see expressed or explained. With Elie I can sympathize but I can’t with Daniel.