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Compare And Contrast Night By Elie Wiesel

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The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tell the story of a 13 year old girl who goes into hiding in an attic for over a year. In this play, Anne lives in a very crowded attic with “family” that doesn’t always get along. Similarly there is a teen boy who wrote a story describing his struggle in staying alive during the same time period, the holocaust. In Night Elie Wiesel struggles to stay alive during his life in the concentration camp without all of his family being there with him. Although Elie and Anne are in different settings and have different ways they treat their mothers, both share a great bond with their father. The setting in the play and the novella Night are very different in the view they interpret. In the play Anne is living in a cramped attic with her family and family-friends. In the attic all of the members must be silent throughout the day because they can’t let anyone know where they are. In the novella Night you can visualize a boy and his family being separated and taken to a concentration camp to struggle to survive. Despite the number of differences, both the play and the novela express very deep feelings. In the play there is some eagerness and anxiousness, and in the novella it expresses fear and horror and can really get the reader into …show more content…

Anne is very disrespectful to her mother when her mother just want to talk to her about her nightmare she had, Anne pushes her away and would rather talk to her father, that really hurts her mother and makes her feel useless. Meanwhile, in the novella Night Elie is separated from his mother and never sees her again, this really upsets Elie but he knows he still has his father. Elie is separated from his mother as soon as they get to the camps and he didn’t even get to tell her goodbye. These are two very different perspectives on how they treat their mothers to get the reader or audience to

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In the play “the diary of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Mr. Frank, father of Anne Frank shows qualities such as control, patience, a positive attitude, and confidence in his decisions that he made and the way he interacted with the other people in the Secret Annex to show that he is a good leader. Mr Frank kept the people in the Secret Annex safe for a long time with his outstanding leadership during the Holocaust. For example, Mr. Frank showed great leadership when Mr. Van Dann tried to steal bread from the cabinet instead of Mr. Frank being furious he told everyone to celebrate because the concentration camps were beginning to be liberated , “for two long years we have lived here side by side. We have respected each

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The Holocaust, which began in 1933 was directed by Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people had to live in prison camps called “concentration camps” where they were forced to do physical labor. In the realistic-fiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the narrator describes what life was like during the Holocaust. The historical period did influence the text because the book describes the lifestyle of the Holocaust, and the outcome.

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The Holocaust was a horrific event, allowing millions of Jews to die or suffer. The tragic event separated families, not being able to see them ever again. However, in the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel and his father relied on each other and as a result, develops a strong father-son relationship. Wiesel and his father develop a strong father-son relationship throughout Night, experiencing horrific events during the Holocaust. Wiesel's relationship with his father progresses from a codependent relationship to a relationship where Wiesel believes his father is decreasing Wiesel's rate of survival.

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The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of how 3 families had to go into hiding when Hitler was after the jews. In the play, Anne has to adjust from living at home and being able to run around with her friends to going into hiding and only sees the 3 families the whole time and can’t go outside. Similar to the play the novel Night by Elie Wiesel was released it was about a boy named Elie who was separated from his family at the concentration camp. In Night, Elie has to stay with his dad and is separated from his mother and sister, and is put through all these death facing challenges. Although Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank have different settings, they both have a similar action and characters before they are being taken away to the concentration camps.

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A dark traumatic event can cause permanent changes in a person. The is quite evident in the Holocaust during WW II. Eliezer Wiesel was a jew in the Holocaust and wrote a book titled Night about his experiences. Wiesel’s torturous experience changed his outlook on his attitude towards others. When Eliezer's book begins he is a very compassionate person.

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Everyone has hopes and dreams in life. Some people’s dreams can be ruined in very little time. Elie Wiesel changes as a person through Night as a result of his father dying, receiving little food and seeing unpleasant sights. Elie relied on his father for useful advice and some skills. His father taught him many things that stuck with him for the rest of his life.

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"...to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all..." The Holocaust killed over 6-7 million people. Jews were forced to live in specific areas of the city called ghettos after the beginning of World War ll. In the larger ghettos, up to 1,000 people a day were picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps. Elie Wiesel was a survivor in the Holocaust.

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In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the narrator’s evolving relationship with his father is a central theme. However, the novel also examines other father/son relationships and the impact of the Holocaust on families. The story examines the difficulties of these relationships by using the themes of guilt, abandonment, and love. While the story seems to argue that the father/son relationships weren’t difficult to maintain during the Holocaust the story actually argues that the relationships were hard to maintain during the Holocaust and it helped people get through the Holocaust.

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In the memoir ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel, he (Elie himself) penned his time in a Jewish ghetto and - later on - in Auschwitz. As the reader gets closer to Elie through his work, he shows his heart and how he wishes that he could have helped others that were close to him in their hour of need. Firstly, he regrets not being a more caring older brother to Tzipora. ‘Where is... Tzipora...’(45) he asked his father, not showing concern for his older sisters, but just Tzipora. This shows that he wanted to be that amazing big brother that everyone that has one would ever want, but he - unfortunately - could not when they were separated into genders.

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The Ones We Love? Family, it’s packed full of meaning and intricacy. In the memoir Night, the complexity of family is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the book, Wiesel often questions if he should try to keep his father around, or if life would be better without him. In Night, the complexity of family is the most significant theme because it highlights good and bad times, it shows the internal conflict about whether he wants his father around or not, and it illustrates the dehumanization that broke the connection between Elie and his father, but the first representation of this is the times shared with the precious people in life.

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One being the pure suffering of people who were killed by other people and the other being the bond between father and son that slowly faded between the lines of the book. Man’s Inhumanity towards man is just a theme, but it basically summarizes the entirety of night. One of the many acts of inhumanity in Night can be found in chapter 3’s “Never shall i forget” testimony which truly explains the true horrors of what man is capable of doing. This stage in the book is important because it permanently changes Elie forever.

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The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank describes how a young girl's life is changed forever when hiding from the Nazi’s during World War II. In this play, Anne discovers her true values in life when being stuck in an attic for two years without anything fun to do. While the play is still currently read among every age, Elie Wiesel's point of view fascinates many on his life changing experiences during this horrible time. In Elie’s novel, the reader finds out how the life of a young boy and his family are changed forever when taken to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp of Jewish citizens. Although Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank provide different experiences and settings during the Holocaust, both authors emphasize the importance of family

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Compare and contrast Anne’s relationship with her mother to that with her father. (Double Bubble Map) Started Monday, January 9th Anne respects and appreciates her father more. And also, she always criticises whatever her mother does. But later in the story Anne respects her mother more. Also Anne appreciates what her mother does for her and the sacrifices she made.

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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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Imagine how it feels to be stuck in a tiny, miniscule room for almost two years, not able to make a sound or movement and if heard by someone,death or concentration camp is the destination? The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett is about a small family which consists of Anne, Margot, Mr. Frank, and Mrs. Frank who were in a shock of fear, and went into hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Over the course of the story other characters join the family into hiding such as Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan, and their son Peter. During the time of hiding, Anne kept a diary to write down all her thoughts, fears, and feelings and was later known to be the most important piece of literature from the times of the Holocaust. The story takes you through their everyday lives of hiding in the annex which also includes arguing and times of happiness.

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