Jaycie Jacobson Language Arts Mr. Foster 30 March 2023 Comparison Essay The Books Night, Maus, and Anthem all have very similar themes and messages throughout them. One of these themes is being alive is not living. In each book, the characters are forced to conform to the rules of others and they are given no way to improve. For example, in Night Elie is forced into Auschwitz and loses his will to improve and only thinks about how to survive. In Maus, Aldek and the other prisoners in the camps are treated as less than human. Also in Anthem Equality 7-2521 is forced to fight who he is and is punished for thinking for himself. To start, not long after Elie enters camp Auschwitz he begins to lose faith and trust in his god. This causes him to lose his ambition to improve he starts to question his god. In the text, Elie talks about what things he will never forget about his first night in camp and he states “Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever….Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.” (Wiesel 34) this shows how on the first night in Auschwitz that he starts to question why his god would let something like this happen and he starts to lose faith that his life will get better. While Elie was in the Buna camp he and the other prisoners were forced to watch the …show more content…
The prisoners are packed into the train and they do not have any room to sit. One day the train stops. While Valadik is on the train he uses the blanket he was given to make a hammock above everyone. This gives him the chance to read through the window and grab snow to eat. He also traded the snow for sugar and that saved his life. After a few days of sitting on the train Valdeck states “No food and no water, only screams inside.” The prisoners are forced to stay in the train and many are starved to death. Aldeck is not living because he has to trade snow for sugar just to