Black and white. That’s how you were told to see, that’s how life was set, eventually though things will change. Oskar Schindler and Elie Wiesel were both on different sides but in many ways they were similar. Living becomes heavy, becomes hard but you must persevere. Elie Wiesel was put on the side of the victim he was hurt and treated like nothing whilst Oskar Schindler was treated like a king.
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
The Holocaust was a horrible point in time where around 6 million Jews were tortured and killed in what was called concentration camps back in the early 1900s. The things that Jewish people went through were nothing like anything we've seen before, almost inhuman the things they were forced to do. The book Night by Elie Wiesel tells the horrific things that went on in the Holocaust that were dehumanizing. Wiesel shows how the Nazis dehumanized the Jewish people by putting in great detail as to what was going on like the carts they had to travel by and the way they are lined up to be thrown in a pit
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).
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.
There are many stories from of the Holocaust throughout history, and the world. Every story is unique to the Jew’s situation. Most stories end in them escaping and being able to live, right? Well that might be true, but there are stories of friends, family members, and seeing other innocent people die. Two examples of stories told about the Holocaust would be, Night by Elie Wiesel, and Life is Beautiful directed by Roberto Benigni.
This question may run through our minds, but in reality, Adolf Hitler, a Catholic German man who was the head of the Nazi parties decided to get rid of Jews. The reason is because their beliefs strongly interfered with the purity and community beliefs of Germans. At the same time in Schindler’s list Oskar, may have been part of the Nazi party, but his actions, and feelings changed throughout the movie giving the audiences a clear view of how hope changed him. When in the beginning, Oskar really wanted to start earning more money by starting a company and having Jews work in it. For him to begin this, he needed a good accountant, so he found and pulled over a Jew named, Stern.
There are many moments in life, where one has to make a choice, but there are only a few where one collides with a split second decision. You only have a few breaths, a minute at most, to decide what to do. Simon Wiesenthal's had many moments in his 96 years of life, which he was faced with choices , yet the one he made the day he spent on the bedside of a German soldier was undoubtedly a moment which shaped the rest of his life . Karl Seidl, a 22 year old German soldier told Simon of the deeds he committed, towards the jews. As the final attempt to cleanse himself of his actions, Seidl asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness.
The Jews are treated terribly and are made to work in extreme conditions all because they were considered as outcasts for their religion. First, they are taken from their homes as in the story it says,”The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them,finally, our illusions''. (?) All the jews were taken from their homes and sent to work in concentration camps that treated them horribly. People who were Jews began to feel afraid and some even changed their identities to not get caught which shows the punishing experience in being judged as an outcast because of how people are fearing being a Jew.
The Nazis were upset with him and forced him to make bullets. Oskar had to obey and change his product, but the bullets he made were faulty. So the nazis wouldn't find out Oskar bought bullets instead. Oskar kept Buying and buying Jews until he became poor. Oskar Schindler saved over 1,200.
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five Author: Kurt Vonnegut Thesis: Throughout KVs SF, he describes in matter of fact way the psychological impact/effects of the devastation of war and death upon Billy Pilgrim and how he handles it. Through the exploration of Billy Pilgrim’s detached and indifferent thoughts, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five illustrates the coping mechanisms of a World War II veteran with post traumatic stress disorder.
Suspend Judgement. To suspend judgment is refraining from drawing one’s own conclusions and judging the unnecessary. Society easily judges the person’s clothes, beauty, tone and attitude, nevertheless, many tend to judge one’s place in society focusing mainly on the materialistic side. However within the texts of the Sunflower, The Cage, Harrison and Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the reader can analyze their place in society and better understand their status’.
Schindler did some very bad things in the beginning, he used slave labor for his profit and he schmoozed many people for his benefit. Though near the end he still schmoozed to get what he wanted, now it was for the benefit of the Jews that he was saving. Schindler change of character and attitude saved 1200 Jews. Schindler changed a lot and because of that many generations of the jews he saved lived
In modern America, people are always thriving to be better. Whether it be athletic achievements, hospitable acts or intellectual discoveries, the people of the US is trying to be successful than those who came before them. One community that has made extraordinarily progress is the scientific community. Today, scientists are altering genes, growing organs and performing surgery on babies before they are even born. 100 years ago, no one would have even dreamed that this technology would be available.
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.
