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Compare And Contrast Farewell To Manzanar And Night

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Imagine being forced out your home unaware of the things to come! You must leave many of your belongings behind as well as your memories. This is what Jeanne Wakatsuki and Eliezer Wiesel had to do. Both evolved through their experiences and told us their stories in the books Farewell to Manzanar and Night. We will compare and contrast the two cooks and how both characters reacted to their life changing events. In the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D Houston, Jeanne and her family are experiencing WWII. WWII was a war between the Axis powers and their allies. Among the Axis powers was Japan and America as alli. To make matters worse, the Wakatsuki’s were Japanese American Internees, they were Japanese living …show more content…

For example when hearing the news of their journey to the camps, Jeanne was excited rather than sorrowful and scared. Elie was worried and wearisome. As the story begins Elie is very religious and wants to get closer to his god, but as the story goes on he begins to lose faith in his god and asks him why he has deserted them. “Where is god now, how can he be present in a world with such cruelty?” Jeanne is never really exposed to god and catholicism until she moves to Manzanar. She becomes very interested in the stories and comes closer to god when she wants to be …show more content…

First of all both Jeanne and Elie are children whose family an themselve are being forced out of their home and city into faraway camps that is restricted due to a policy created by the official government that signifies their discrimination towards their culture. Both books include specific ideas or objects that symbol an important part of the book. In the book Night the “night” is used as a way to show or symbolize death and the darkness one has in the soul. For example Mrs. Schachter has her visions of fire at night meaning “hell”. Elie and his father are taken on a very long walk at night where many of the Jews die and are seen as stacked corpses. Also Elie’s father dies at night.”The days were like night and the night left the dregs of their darkness in our souls. In Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne's dream about the blonde prom queen is signifying her beauty standards, and her desire to be accepted the way she is by the people. It also symbolizes the despair she feels about being the only excluded of many clubs that her friend Radine is able to

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During the book, Farewell to Manzanar, There were no particular deaths from racism. There was a at least one person that died because Fred Tayama stole the sugar and meat. In that illegal moment, it caused a huge controversy when Fred stole those things. In the book, Night, there were about six-million Jews that were killed by the Nazis because Hitler wanted one race. Although they bear some minor similarities, the differences between Farewell to Manzanar and Night are clear.

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After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the United states went into World War II, many people think that the Japanese living near the West Coast aid Japan even though they have no evidence of them doing any wrong. If the person race is Japanese or if their face look Japanese they had to move to an internment camp. The nonfiction story “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston had to face discrimination through her time at Japanese internment camp. Another nonfiction, memoir called “The Bracelet” by Yoshiko Uchida. The story explain that the narrator were having similar experience even though they both live in different area.

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The two novels “Night” and “Farewell to Manzanar” were different time periods and were for different reasons; “Night is based off of the Holocaust and “Farewell to Manzanar” were based after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The people were sent to the concentration camps to work and can not leave. The human interactions between prisoners in Auschwitz and prisoners in Manzanar were differed of how they were treated. In the two novels there were people that felt the need to remind people to stay strong.

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In the book Night, we the readers witness the hardships and struggles in Elie’s life during the traumatic holocaust. The events that take place in this story are unbearable and are thought to be demented in modern times. In the beginning Elie is shown as a normal teenage Jewish boy, but the events are so drastic that we the readers forget how he was like in the beginning. Changes were made to Elie during the book, whether they were minor or major. The changes generated from himself, the journey, and other people.

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Have you ever woken up not knowing if you will live to wake up again? Elie Wiesel suffered many afflictions during his time held captive in German concentration camps, from being dehumanized to starved, his experiences changed his entire life. His autobiography, Night, portrays his horrific struggles during World War II. Elie Wiesel certainly deserves his biography; out of the millions who were sent to these terrible death camps, he not only survived, but went on to inspire millions as an author, philosopher, and public speaker. Elie was a religious fifteen year old boy living in Sighet, but when his town was overtaken by the Germans, his life turned upside down.

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People come and go but through it all the memories remain. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, is based off of a true story by the author himself. Elie’s family goes through a tragic moment in life that most people would not have be able to escape out of. Unfortunately, Elie’s mother and sisters had been obliterated immediately leaving only his dad and himself. The everyday struggles created sacrifices between the two but Elie and his dad fought through them for each others lives.

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Everybody has experienced a life changing moment at some point or another, but nothing compares to the nightmare Elie Wiesel went through. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie attempts to survive through hell on earth while living during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel lives in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, and he is a very religious Jewish teenage boy who studies Torah and Kabbalah, and has faith in God. Elie and his family, being very optimistic, don't believe that the Nazis will come to their town once they hear that there is Nazi invasion. But they do, in 1944, and things change drastically.

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There are many things that could tear someone from their beliefs. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, there are even more things. The jews in this story have viewed things many of us have not, and those things they cannot bring themselves before that time. In my opinion, Elie had the worst fall of his faith while viewing the things he did at the camps. Being religious and believing in certain things really can change a person, and nothing should be able to take them from that.

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