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

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

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