Similarities Between Jurassic Park And Night

Jurassic Park and Night: two completely different mediums with the same underlying theme. Night, written by Elie Wiesel, is an autobiographical novel that goes into depth about the horrors of the Auschwitz and Buchenwalk concentration camps. The characters in the novel go through horrific events and lose their religious faith. Jurassic Park is a movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, about archaeologists and scientists that are asked to visit Jurassic Park, where scientists brought back dinosaurs from extinction with scientific methods. In the movie, the main character loses his faith about the miracle of bringing dinosaurs back. Although both Jurassic Park and Night have two distinctly different plots, there is a very prominent theme of faith being lost in the midst of chaos. The creators show the theme through the reoccurrence of tragic events. In Night, Ellie Wiesel describes what it was like to go through concentration camps and all of the awful events the prisoners went through. Obviously, concentrations camps were very tragic and countless amount of lives were lost. In the novel, Wiesel wrote, "Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever," (Wiesel 34). As the horrific events kept happening to him, Wiesel kept losing his strong religious faith and would constantly

Through tragic events, characters hopefulness, and motifs, both creators are able to depict the theme very well and prominently. The characters in Night lost their religious faith the farther they go through the concentration camps. The characters in Jurassic Park lost their faith in the dinosaurs the more they saw the defects of the park. From deathly Holocaust camps to dangerous dinosaurs, both creators of Night and Jurassic Park were able to flawlessly execute the same underlying message about the loss of