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Compare And Contrast Night By Elie Wiesel

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Wiesel’s “Night” is a memoir in which Elie, the protagonist is recalling his concentration camp experiences, encompassing events from the end of 1941 to 1945. It is written in the perspective of a younger version of himself. Maus is a graphic novel by American visual artist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It portrays Spiegelman conversing with his father about his encounters as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It is composed in first person, but switches between the perspective of Art and his father who he is interviewing. Through Elie’s and Vladek’s change in perspective of survival, the reader can see that self preservation is more important than keeping others alive, through the means of survival depending on the ability …show more content…

In both memoirs the main objective of the protagonists (Elie, and Vladek) is to survive however, it was not as easy task even to stay alive. Survival in The Holocaust depended upon the ability to see the world in a different way. To survive, one has to completely change his mindset. When talking to Art, Vladek says “Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you can see what it is, friends! …”, this takes places at the beginning of the graphic novel when setting and characters are being established. When Vladek says this he is intending that real friends are the ones who can maintain their values and attitudes in extreme circumstance. The repetition of the word “friends” followed by a question mark emphasizes how Vladek even questions the idea of having friends. Similarly in “Night” Elie feels like a burden has been lifted of him after the death of his father when he says “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have something like: Free at last!...” (Night 112). The phrase “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep” shows how he actually wanted to be sad

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In this book Elie speaks of his hardships and how he survived the concentration camps. Elie quickly changed into a sorrowful person, but despite that he was determined to stay alive no matter the cost. For instance, during the death

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The book, Night by Ellie Wiesel, is about Moche the Beadle who is from modern-day Romania which is also called Sighet, Transylvania. The book first introduces the family of Moche to us. The family is Jewish. The narrator, Wiesel, wants to learn about religious mysticism and he picks Moche to be his teacher. Moche gets deported from Romania and a couple months later he escapes from Poland.

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In chapter five of the Holocaust memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie’s relationship with his father grew stronger while his relationship with his God became weaker. After being faced with the horrors in the concentration camp, Elie’s belief in an intangible God is replaced by the immediate urge to tend to his father’s needs. The love shared between them is the only drive he has to stay alive. Due to these circumstances, Elie slowly begins to lose hope in the god he once adored, but gains an inseperable bond with his father.

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So many survivors have a story to tell, so many people have a point to make, and many just want to understand the horror that when on during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s Night and Art Spiegelman’s Maus share many similarities and differences throughout the book such as plotline, family relationships, and author’s purpose. The plotline of both Maus and Night share similarities and differences.

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There were over 23 concentration camps that killed Jews over the course of the Holocaust, Over 6 million Jews died. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel he shares his traumatic experience during the holocaust and how he and his dad navigated concentration camps. In comparison Anne Frank's “The diary of a young girl” talks about how she and her family had a safe place to hide while others were dying. In both books we can see that the main character's environment shapes their behaviors and beliefs, Even though both characters went through the holocaust differently they were still both highly affected.

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After reading more of Elie Wiesel’s haunting life story, he describes the horrendous things he witnessed while in the concentration camp and, how the prisoners were treated in the most gruesome ways. When they first get to Auschwitz, the Jews are given a number then doctors use needles to brand it onto each captive’s forearm. From then on the prisoners were not known by name but, by their number. This was just one of the degrading things that the Jews were forced to endure. Another hardship they faced was the verbal and physical abuse not only from the guards but, from the other prisoners as well.

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Has society ever wondered how bad the Holocaust really was, if so read the book Night it's a first person encounter of the tragedy that was the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a man that was sent to Auschwitz because he's Jewish. While Elie Wiesel was in Auschwitz some of the things he saw were completely awful, for example one of the kids he saw was about to be hung but when the bottom of the gallow fell the boy's neck didn't snap and he sat there squirming, suffocating, the boy sat there for an hour or two. Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Auschwitz, and a winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, Night is about Elie's hardships while in Auschwitz, it illustrates all the horrific things he saw, also while he was there in Auschwitz his father was also

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Night and Schindler’s list are two despairing stories. Night is a true story about the Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Elie is captured and put into a concentration camp at age 15. Him and his father get separated from his sisters and his mother. During this time of Elie’s life, he his tested in his faith in God.

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The Significance of Loved Ones “‘The only thing that keeps me alive,” he kept saying, “is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. Were it not for them, I would give up’” (Wiesel, 45). This is said by a Jewish man attempting to fight an onerous and exhausting fight against death. His family was his will to live.

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Writing a book or a novel could often be for pleasure or to write a fun story, yet often times it could be to shine light on a subject that needs to never be forgotten. Isabel Allende once wrote, “ Write what should not be forgotten” many authors can use their writing skills in order to help horrible things in history to not be repeated again. In the novel Book Thief by Markus Zusak and the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, both authors discuss one of the most tragic moments in human history, the holocaust. Zusak writes his novel based on the life of a german girl named, Lisel, during the period of World war two. Meanwhile Wiesel writes his own personal journey of what his life was life, being part of what was known as the inferior race at this point in history between the years of World war two as well.

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A true story, in a first hand account of the horrors of the Holocaust. He wasn’t alone in this journey, his father was there every step of the way. This wasn’t necessarily a good thing, because as Elie was harassed, so was his father. Elie thinks to himself in the novel, the last thing you want to see is your father suffering. Day by day, both of them grew weaker.

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Could you imagine living a normal life for years when all of a sudden you are being gassed and killed over what you believe in? In the graphic novel Maus 1 by Art Spigelman and in the poem “Often in a minute” by Madageline Stein we are shown and told in many different ways how this affected many lives and families, how people had to go through this for years. After reading Maus 1 by Art Spigelman and “Often in a minute” by Madageline Stein the nuanced themes were Death/grief and the holocaust; however, the different structure contributes to the theme because one is a graphic novel and one is a poem. Themes in Maus I To begin, in Maus 1 by art Spiegelman the nuanced themes were death/grief and Jewishness In this graphic novel, we are shown these themes in different situations, for example, we see the theme of sadness and grief when we find out that art’s mom killed herself when he was young, and the comic book he makes about her death.

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In Night and MAUS, Wiesel and Spiegelman attempt to outline the impact of the varying reactions the Jewish population had about the same idea of fathers and sons. This can relate to society as a whole in the sense that decisions of people with the same morals and principals can not be compared in a setting as mitigating as such. However, the effect is just as great on the individual. Elie stresses the guilt he feels every day for being so inconsiderate for his father despite his plight. Artie alludes to the difficulty he has writing the book he intended for his readers.

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Chapter One Summary: In chapter one of Night by Elie Wiesel, the some of the characters of the story are introduced and the conflict begins. The main character is the author because this is an autobiographical novel. Eliezer was a Jew during Hitler’s reign in which Jews were persecuted. The book starts out with the author describing his faith.

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