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Schindler's Ark By Steven Spielberg

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Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. Factory owner Oskar Schindler makes a deal with Amon Goeth, the commandant of the Paszów labor camp, to send about 1,100 Jews to work in Schindler's factory as slaves. At this point, Schindler sees the Jews as nothing put cheap labor.
Over time, Schindler grows attached to the Jews, even though his factory
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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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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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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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The story of Oskar Schindler, a “hero” that saved the lives of nearly 1,200 Jewish men and women during the Holocaust. The story is told in the form of a book, written by Thomas Keneally after interviewing one of the Jews present during the events. This book was later named “Schindler’s Ark” and much later would be created into the film Schindler’s List. The movie, Schindler’s List, was based on a true story, and for the most part historically accurate in terms of depicting the holocaust. The film does at times, include a few instances of historical inaccuracies that are included or left out for the sake of storytelling.

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The difference in this movie, is that Oskar Schindler is part of the Nazi party that basically shows his point of view during the holocaust. In Schindler’s list and Night the content shows us how hope is shifted to many areas, although there are

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In Schindler's List it goes from owning lots of money, to helping Jews survive. Elie and Schindler made changes in their values with a step of faith. Even though Elie was struggling with faith throughout the book some part of him still had faith that he was going to make it to the end.

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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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I do not believe that Oskar Schindler was entertaining the idea of sheltering Jews in his factory when he purchased it at first. In his mindset, Schindler only planned on being a wealthy German businessman. He was very self-centered in the beginning of the movie and was incisive when planning to build his own factory in Poland. During this time, he planned on only making money at first, but since the Jews needed to be protected from the persecution of the Nazis, he gained big profits when the Jews worked for him. Schindler also does not loose, but rather gains money as well since the Jews work for him for free.

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The film Schindler 's List stands among the most successful and noteworthy Holocaust films of the twentieth century. It portrays the moral development of one Oskar Schindler, a rising Nazi businessman, who saved roughly one thousand Jewish prisoners of the Krakow Ghetto by employing them at his factory. By heavily bribing Nazi officials and outsourcing his production, Schindler was able to his deem his Jewish workers essential to the war effort, saving them from otherwise certain death. Like all films, Schindler 's List has its strengths and weaknesses. The director 's decision to begin in full color with candles which fade into black and white not only helps the viewer enter a solemn and serious mindset, but it also minimizes distractions as to focus solely on the film 's message while the story unfolds.

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Some argue the idea that before Schindler’s List,  his films like the Color Purple and Empire of the Sun which were serious films but some claim that the films were flawed in an attempt to maked the holocaust seem “more dramatic”. (Welsh The idea of this is absolutely false it is absurd and frankly sick to think that one would make one of the biggest human genocides “more dramatic” Others argue the reason that before Schindler’s list, Spielberg was a totally different actor. One film critic who reviewed the Sugarland Express, called Spielberg a “ commercial and shallow and impersonal. They called out the idea that Spielberg was more about marketing than the actual film. (Manchel 26).

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Noah was truly a man after God's heart. Since Noah was described as the "preacher of righteousness" and his motivation came from faith and godly love, Noah lived a life full of worship and affection for God. His name actually means "comfort" and "rest". Most Christians would absolutely love to be described like Noah. He is mainly known for building the ark when God flooded the world, but he is so much more than that.

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People to this day still find horror and beauty in this film, finding this film an extraordinary masterpiece executed by director, Steven Spielberg. Some people do disagree with the images shown in the film, however, as a whole, the entire community who thoroughly enjoys films agree the accuracy of this film that did not hold back any viewing content truly added greatly to the film. Perhaps the most touching reaction came from the place where it all started. The premiere of Schindler’s List in Germany with a room filled with 800 people – Germans and Jews, diplomats and artists, film makers and people who had known Oskar Schindler when he lived there (Whitney, 1994).

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