Similarities Between An Ordinary Man And Elie Wiesel

Genocide happens when groups try to take out a whole population. 800,000 hutus and six million Jews died in the killing by the people that wanted to commit this massacre. Kids, adults, teens, boy or a girl died if a Tutsi or a Jew. Two great people that survived these two genocide wrote books about their experience. Paul Rusesabagina wrote An Ordinary Man and Elie Wiesel wrote Night. Two genocides that inhabit and with two different experiences going on. Elie went through hard labor in many concentration camps. Losing all of his family almost from the start when he got to the camp. His dad and himself fought through the journey together. On the other story Paul saved 1200 people in his hotel. The words retaining him because of how persuasive

With such little pride and broken down from the guards, their strength move low. Everything they owned disappear;taken away by the guards. Both in which moved to different places, Paul; Belgium, Elie; New York. Putting everything in a book theses two men took the time to relive those bad images and write about it all. Elie Wiesel, using Night, and Paul Rusesabagina, using An Ordinary Man, revealing their attitudes about the genocide they each experienced. Not knowing what happens next Elie explains how he thought he did not know what to expect next. Not knowing he was going to have to fight for his life. When the officers said “All jews outside” nobody knew what the officers wanted from them. Just as Elie writes “Who knows? Perhaps we are being deported for our own good” (Wiesel 30). Elie with confusing thoughts and did not know what to expect. He himself did not know but the people reading his book all knew. Elie not even an adult, with SS soldiers barking at him, he did not know what to expect next.

Paul had good ways with his words and ultimately getting out of Rwanda. To begin with Paul explain how much people throughout Rwanda killed and how many killings happened a day, an hour, even a minute. Paul writes “The best you can say is that my hotel saved about four hours worth of people” ( Rusesabagina 79). Many people died during this genocide and Paul lucky enough to live and save all of those people. Explaining how any normal person would do what he did. Paul wishes that he could save more people. Even though Paul above all fortent he secondly uponed in fear of this genocide. Throughout the story he reveals how he in the first place was a friend with some of the people that are killing, as he went on he states “Alliances always shift, particularly in the chaos of war” ( Rusesabagina 81) It shows how you never know what's going to happen. Hard for him to see his friends one day the next they turned on him, living each day in fear. Not knowing if he could keep living or not. He explains how he say his neighbor started killing also. The same neighbor he invited over to eat dinner with and play with his kids. Being in fear all the time can lead to some depressing thought on, which Paul has said in his story. Words meant a lot to Paul, he states that his parents generation were told as kids that they are ugly and will never be capable of running business