Different Perspectives "The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don 't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it" (Pine, n.d.). This quote by Chris Pine (n.d.) emphasizes that though a person 's circumstance cannot be controlled, their response to it certainly can. People have the power to take any situation and deem it positive or negative based on the lens through which they view it. Elie Wiesel 's (2006) book Night and the movie "Life is Beautiful" (2000) portray how a different perspective can alter the way a difficulty is experienced. Both of these works focus on the relationship between a father and a son as they tell the story of their unique encounters in the concentration camps. The main factor that impacts each outcome is perspective. In the novel Night and in the movie "Life is Beautiful," the Holocaust is portrayed both similarly and differently through the father/son relationship, God 's provision, and mood of sadness. Father/Son Relationship While both Night and "Life is Beautiful" focus on the relationship between a father and a son, the dynamic of the two relationships are different. Whereas in Night, the son looks out for his father, in "Life is Beautiful", the father is the protector of his son. For instance, in Night, Eliezer reaches a point where he is tempted to give into his inclination to end his life, yet he decides to stay alive for the sake of his father: “The idea of dying, of