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Compare And Contrast Schindler's List And Night

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4,200 religions in the world, and everyone can fall. Everyone claims that they’re ‘God’ or Gods’ will help them in the face of hard trails, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll be healed completely. People don’t always know how to stay faithful during these times because they don’t know how to lean on someone else for help. They often question, “Why would someone or some people put such weight on my shoulders, and scorch my eyes with the actions of the world?” Even more so, to a point where they all fall… Without a choice. In Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, the two main characters Schindler and Elie face the troubles of the world and their religion in divergent ways during the Holocaust. Although they …show more content…

For Elie, his life begins to become more valuable to him in a way that he survives. Elie had never lied, which changes when he has to say his age and what he does so that he can stay alive. As time goes by, he begins to feel more dead inside by the hour. The time that he gets to rest is valued deeply and serves as a sense of assurance that God is there. There are times though where he can feel God leaving him when he thinks about the women that were in his life. He missed them all deeply and wanted them back and he values all of the memories that he got to share with them. For Schindler, this situation is different. At the beginning of the movie, Schindler spots a girl in a red coat, which is the only color that can be seen in this black and white film. Throughout the movie he wondered what had happened to her and figured out later on when he saw her. There she lay, strapped to a wheelbarrow, dead. In a few moments, she would be thrown into a big burning pit of fire. From this experience, Schindler begins to value his life even more so than he had, and in addition to that, he starts caring about people who don’t get this privilege. As seen in the movie, Schindler bought multiple Jews to help to save them. Through the holocaust, both of these people began to have new values to them and took something from …show more content…

To start off, Elie realized that he needs to stay strong through the hard trails that are put onto him. In the novel Night, he sees and experiences different tragic events that someone will never see in their lifetime. For example, he had to continue working for the people in which he knew just killed his father. Although, he couldn’t show a sign of weakness, or he’d be killed. Because of this, he had to keep his head high and know that this situation can get better and that he’s not lonely, he has God. Schindler begins to understand the same thing in that God is always with him. He takes this into consideration when he realizes that it’s good to be good. At the end of the movie Schindler trembles on the ground in the arms of Jews realizing what he did and that he could have saved more of them. From this situation, Schindler spent a heaping amount of the money that he made and learned an important message… Money isn’t everything. All of his life, he thought that the best way to maintain a good life was to have the most money you can, but as seen in the movie he realized that money was the opposite of that. Money was like the devil, it took over him and made him a sinner and he never thought twice about his actions. His money drawn attention to younger women in which he would interact with, despite the fact that he was a taken man, married to a beautiful wife. In the end, they both gained understandings from this

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Elie also started giving up on his religious beliefs. He started feeling as though god wasn’t there for him anymore. Schindler started gaining feelings and caring about the jews. He tried doing everything he could to save the Jews. He told Germans that the Jews were his workers so they let him take them to his factory.

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The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took

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For example, he succeed his first quest for riches, but at the end of the war, he spent everything he made, and managed to save 1,300 Jewish men and women lives. Not too long after his factory, which produced enamels goods and munitions, Schindler's Jewish accountant put him in touch with some of the few Jews that has any remaining wealth. Furthermore, they invested in his factory, and in return, they would be able to work there and hopefully be spared. He was persuaded to hire more Jewish workers for his factory to pay off the Nazis so they would allow them to stay in

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The similarities in Night and Schindler’s list are very obvious but one theme comes out in particular. Many people try not to realize what's true when they don’t want to when they see how fallacious it is. In the first few pages of Night by Elie Wiesel a boy discovers the horrors that are happening in Germany to the Jews and tries to warn others what is coming, ”Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad. ”(P.7 Elie Wiesel).

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The Holocaust was a horrible event in history that will scar humanity forever. With the events of the Holocaust being experienced by millions there are many different perspectives of said events. One such perspective is presented in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Another perspective is presented in Schindler’s List, a film directed by Steven Spielberg (based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally) about Oskar Schindler, a gentile who saves over one thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Both pieces show heart wrenching stories of the abuse of a group of people in different ways, each using different mediums to convey their points.

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Finally, after his fathers death, Elie felt worthless. Everything he did was merely to stay alive, and if he would’ve had that outlook from the beginning, he would not have made it as far as he did. To elaborate on my first point, Elie’s father was not only his advisor, but his protector as well. Many times, those two things went hand in hand.

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Towards the beginning of Elie’s life his father barely paid attention to him and they often fought over his desire to be a mystic. Near the end of the book, in the camp, Elie and his father were nearing death but they only thing Elie cared about was being with his father. Elie says”As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be seperated from my father”(Wiesel 82). Everything besides his father and him being alive had become less important. Elie and his father had a poor relationship at the start of the book, but during his journey at the camp Elie grew closer to his father and would do anything for him.

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Due to the horrific circumstances, Elie changed both physically and emotionally. He started to not care about anyone or anything, he thought his father was a burden, an he became very skinny and he thought that his body was holding him back. At the beginning of the story, Night, Elie cared about his father and everyone he knew. He was always making sure that him and his father were doing the right thing.

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Schindler is exceptionally selfish when he starts his business in Krakow. He is very dependent on Itzhak Stern’s accountant work for the business. Stern is accidently put on a train to Auschwitz and Schindler goes to save him. Schindler is so selfish that he says to Stern when he saves him, “Where would I be”, meaning that Schindler would have been nothing without Stern’s help. When saying that, Schindler goes without thinking about how Stern’s life

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Schindler moved away parting with his wife, Emilie, back to Europe. Schindler spent millions to protect and save Jews, this was all the money he had. Sadly, but boldly Mr.Schindler died penniless on October 9, 1974 in Hildesheim, Germany. The survivors of the holocaust that were saved by him are forever grateful. One of the greatest parts of Schindler’s work saving jews was, he allowed the jews that were saved to tell their story after the Holocaust, the undersigned Jews from Krakow, inmates of Plaszow concentration camp, have, since 1942, worked in Director Schindler’s business.

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I think that a large reason as to why Elie was able to continue is that while others had faith, he had his father. Someone that was dependent on him, someone he had to support. He states multiple times that he wants nothing more than to lie down and give up, but he says that he doesn’t have the right to die because he needs to be there for his father. During the beginning of the book, night is simply a way to keep track of the time, but as the story progresses it comes to carry a much deeper

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Schindler 's Transformation Oskar Schindler, a greedy nazi who’d people not expect to ever do anything good had an amazing transformation in his life. He is smart and knows how to get his way. But when most people think rich people are greedy his transformation proves otherwise. Schindler changed in many ways throughout his story. He started out tricking people to make money but ended up saving many Jews and his actions touched the hearts of many people.

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As a result of working closely with the Nazis, he was able to witness first hand accounts of what happened inside of the execution/forced labor camps that Jews were imprisoned in. Schindler witnessed death, torture, labor, pain, and barbaric conditions. This was unbelievably wrong in the eyes of Schindler. Consequently, he ended up saving over 1,200 Jews from the concentration camps. (The Oscar Schindler Story) Schindler spared his own life to save

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He gives up all of the money he owns to take the Jews out of the camps and into his factory, which saves them from being murdered. His power as a Nazi was used to do good by standing up to another Nazi, Amon Goeth by telling him that “power is when we have every justification to kill and we don’t”. Schindler is saying that power comes from being a decent person, and not gaining power out of fear from others. Schindler also uses his power and leadership to make a list, known as Schindler’s List. This list contains 1,100 names of Jews that Schindler is taking to come work for him, preventing them from being killed at the concentration camps.

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World War II started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The war was mainly fought in Europe and parts of Asia. The Axis powers were Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. The Allied powers were the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Greece, New Zealand, China, Norway, Poland, and Brazil. The United States joined World War II on December 8, 1941, because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

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