Compare And Contrast Never Fall Down By Elie Wiesel

In certain places leaders can grow to have more power than they can handle. When this happens it can result in war and death among small countries. In Never Fall Down, by Patricia McCormick the Khmer Rouge are the rulers of Cambodia and a young Arn is in the middle of it all. On the other hand in Night, by Elie Wiesel the Nazi Germans are taking rule over the jews and are killing them, this was called the Holocaust, it was a mass genocide on the jews and all non aryan people. In both of these stories there is a higher ranking group of people taking over a young boy’s life along with his family and friends. In Cambodia Arn is put to work in a camp where he will most likely die, but with his musical talent he gets out and later fights in the

Both Elie Wiesel and Arn were caught in bad situation, and both characters were caught in labor camps under the leadership of a terrible group of people. In Night, the Nazi Germans controlled Elie Wiesel and his family while on the other hand Arn was controlled by the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. Another thing both these characters had in common was how much they developed through their journeys. Both Arn and Elie Wiesel started off young boys living a regular life, then all the sudden one day their lives changed. Throughout the book they showed strengths and wits adapting to the environment they were living in. In Night when Elie Wiesel first arrived in Auschwitz it was rough the first thing the guard said told the reader that Elie was in for a hard time, “Here, you must work. If you don't you will go straight to the chimney. To the crematorium” (Wiesel 38). That sentence already shows how much this young boy had to go through at the concentration

At this camp they would have their workers pick rice in the rice fields. Though unlike Auschwitz if you were injured instead of killing you they would give you to the doctor to be checked out, which was better than being killed. Also, unlike Auschwitz, people who are placed in the camp wouldn't have to run from camp to camp when leaving one camp, they were allowed to walk. Since Elie had to run when changing camps it was a living hell for him, Especially since the camps in Germany could be as much as 42 miles apart, sometimes even more. In Cambodia where Arn is The walk from camp to camp is about two days. “ Finally, after two day walking, we get to the new camp.” (McCormick 119). This evidence shows me that in Cambodia at the camps the leaders and soldiers took more pity on the prisoners then The Nazi Germans did to Elie Wiesel and other prisoners along with him. Though, during the time Arn was switching camps he was fighting in the war for Cambodia. On the other hand Elie Wiesel when switching camps was still prisoner to the Nazi Germans, and had to do whatever they said. Becoming a soldier shows real development in Arn. Even though it wasn't his choice, he does it without complaining or refusing, this shows that he has become stronger and more mature. For Elie Wiesel when he doesn't talk back to the Nazis and listens to what they say, and what they tell him to do, this shows maturity because he is so young and he does this