Similarities Between Night And Life Is Beautiful

Remembering the Holocaust

The multiple different stories of the Holocaust have inspired many different people in

many different ways. Two people in which wrote and produced the book Night by Elie Wiesel

and the film Life is Beautiful. These stories have somethings alike but many striking differences

which explain the two stores from two different point of views.

In Night and Life Is Beautiful there are similarities that obvious like how they are both

about the Holocaust and how it affected both families but in different ways. Although there are

many similarities,the differences in the two stories stand out magnificently. In the film Life Is

Beautiful the producer treats the Holocaust more like more of a joke, the producer makes it

seems as if though the Jews didn't have it so bad

but, In reality the Jews life during the Holocaust
was a living nightmare. Night treats the Holocaust as more of a serious matter rather than making
a joke of it, Elie Wiesel tells a true story about a family during the Holocaust and expresses his
own thoughts and feelings throughout the book.

Another striking difference in the two stories is

the son and his age, In Night the son is a mid teenager pretending to be a 18 year old in order to

increase the chance of staying with his father. Life is Beautiful takes a more unrealistic scenario,

The producer decided to make Guido’s son a little boy there for he has to hide from the soldiers

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in order to survive and to avoid be taken to the “showers”. Undoubtedly the tone in the two

stories are to a great extend different, Night has more of a grim and Intense tone while Life Is

Beautiful has a playful and lighthearted tone.

Correspondingly, Night and Life Is Beautiful have many interesting similarities. In both

stories the main characters relationships are much alike despite age, both stories have a

fatherson

relationship which seemed to really draw the reader more into the book. Evidently the

two stories both have themes of inhumanity towards other humans, the German soldiers in both

stories treat the jews more like animals than humans. In addition sacrifice is also a similar

theme,
due to the fact that both families have to give up something for someone they love. In both
stories, Although in different ways, the main character is fighting to protect something. In Night
Ellie is fighting to protect his dad from death, while in Life Is Beautifu l Guido is fighting to
protect his son from the truth of the Holocaust.
In conclusion, the multiple different stories of the Holocaust have inspired many different
people in many different ways. A tragic event in history that helped the world realize just how
evil some people are. The Holocaust also gave the world wisdom to pass on to future generations
to prevent a tragedy such as this from happening again. By the same token, The memoir Night
gave readers a better idea of what the Holocaust was really like, and how it tore apart families
and traumatized many survivors, while the film Life Is Beautiful made it seem less cruel and not
as serious.
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