Life Is Beautiful And Night Compare And Contrast Maus And Elie Wiesel

It is estimated that 1.1 million jewish people were brought to Auschwitz and only around 200,000 came out alive. Two of those survivors were Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel who both have told their stories of being at Auschwitz to the world through books. Vladek’s son wrote about his life in a graphic novel called Maus and Elie Wiesel wrote his own book called Night. Another holocaust story that has some similarities to the books but also is very different since it’s fictional is the famous movie Life is Beautiful who’s main characters are Guido and Joshua. War causes many deaths of both soldiers and citizens, but the ones who live such as Elie, Joshua, and Vladeck survive because they have hope, a will to live, food, and family.

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The comic even shows people blaming Hitler for her death. Even though Elie came close to losing his will to survive he did still

Life is Beautiful and Night are both stories about a father and son being in the camp together and helping one another. Guido is the father in Life is Beautiful who finds a way to convince his son Joshua that their time spent in the camp is all a part of a big game. Joshua therefore stays positive and determined throughout the movie all because his father make a great effort to make everything look fun. He even creates a point system and says that the winner of the game gets a tank. The father son relationship in Night is a little different from guidos and joshua's because Elie is older and understands the seriousness of the situation. Also instead of the dad encouraging the son like in Life is Beautiful, in Night the son is the one who keeps his father from giving up. During the long march in the snow toward the end of the war Shlomo decides that he can no longer go on but Elie convinces him to keep going and he ends us surviving that night unlike many of the other prisoners. “I can't anymore...It's o v e r ... I shall die right h e r e …” “To have lived and endured so much; was I going to let my father die now? … Father! Father! Get up! Right now! You will kill yourself…”(Weisel 105) Maus also shows a strong family connection but more with husband and wife as opposed to father and son since Art did not experience WWII. Vladek and Anja were able to stay together for the majority of