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The Book Thief And Night Comparison

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Without a theme, a story is just a story with little meaning. To test whether a theme is worthy, the reader should ask whether it teaches a lesson, whether it's revealed through characters and whether it applies to the entire work. Several themes in the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and in the movie The Book Thief pass this test.In Night, Elie writes a memoir about how he and his family are sent to Aushwits, a concentration camp, for being Jewish during the holocaust. At the camps, Elie suffers through great trials that challenge his faith as he witnesses the worst in humanity. Similarly in The Book Thief, a fiction story about theme in character, Liesel Meminger. Liesel navigates her way through life in Germany during WW1. As she develops relationships, …show more content…

That is important because it happened a lot during the Holocaust. Nazis, and even some Jews, treated Jews so cruelly. In the book thief, Liesel’s mother had to give up Liesel and her brother because she was a communist, and didn't want anything bad to happen to Liesel or her brother. Liesel was also bullied because of her parents being communist. People had to worry about being deported into the war, or being killed. Jews had to go into hiding, to hide from being put into a concentration camp. When a neighbor of Hans and Rosa’s was found out to have secretly been a jew, he was going to be put into a concentration camp, Hans stood up for him saying they had all known him for a long time, and he was alright. The Nazi asked for Hans’ name, and wrote it down. A few days later Hans got put into the war. In Night, all the Jews are put into concentration camps, and some are immediately killed in the crematories.Some Jews put into concentration camps didn't even believe in the religion. In the book Night, Elie said “ Yes I saw it with my own eyes… Those children in the flames” and “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” “Never shall I forget the flames that consumed my faith forever.” How can someone be so cruel as to burn young children alive? Later in the book, when Elie's father fell ill, the other invalids in the hospital beat Elie's father because he stank. They would also steal his bread. People in the holocaust were very cruel evil

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The book reveals thoughts and opinions that Elie has when placed into the concentration camps. Fear is shown in the beginning, but recedes toward the end. The Jews' faith in God quivers, and most believe that He is dead. Elie takes care of his weakened father, as he finds himself wishing for death. Night, in the book, is when the Jews were most fearful,

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There they are rescued by Americans and a resistance group that attacked the camp. Sadly Elie’s father died in Buchenwald before the rescue due to a sickness and being sent to the crematory. Dehumanization of the Jewish people in “Night” ,by Elie Wiesel, happened in a variety of ways and helped Hitler achieve his goal of damaging the view of Jewish people to the Germans. In “night” we see how the Jewish people are being oppressed as well as being dehumanized in so many ways.

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Elie watches his father slowly loose health and eventually die. Elie survives after almost being exterminated by the American tanks that arrive at Buchenwald. He slowly recuperates in a hospital. In the Book Thief, The Standover Man, written by Max to Liesel, greatly tells of how Hitler dehumanized the Jews.

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Everyone was in danger, from jews to gypsies to even homosexuals. If you were seen as different, you were likely to die. During this time period, many German people were feeling racially superior to an extreme point where they felt the only thing to do was put an end to everyone else; this was the Holocaust. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie tells his story about his life during the Holocaust, and everything he went through to keep his father and himself alive. Everyone's faith in the goodness of God was being tested during the Nazi era.

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During the Holocaust, most of the Jewish children got their privileges revoked. One of the privileges was they were no longer allowed to attend school. Jewish people heard that the Nazis were going around taking Jews from their homes for deportation. At first when the Nazis took the children out of the school and put them on a train to somewhere, their parents thought they would come back, but they did not. Jewish people started to get word of the concentration camps and started to ask other non-Jews to hide them.

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Throughout NIght, the main character, Elie experienced horrible events causing his loss of faith, emotional changes, and desire of death. Throughout the 1940’s Jewish men, women, and children were forced out of their homes and sent on a treacherous journey. Elie Wiesel, along with his mother, father, and three sisters were taken from their home in Sighet, Transylvania. They soon were in transit on one large cattle car with about eighty

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As you have seen the Nazi’s showed variuos forms of mistreatment to the Jewish people in deportation, enforcing unjustified laws, and murdering thousands of the Jews. In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, they show the journey of a jewish boy and his father throughout the several different phases of the Holocaust and paints a picture of what terrible acts the Jews were put through. Throughout the novel, they show the deportation of Jews and how they were forced to leave their houses and all their belongings behind and forced to leave in awful conditions. They made families split and killed off all the Jews who were sick or not healthy enough to work in physical labor. Not only did Hitler and the Nazis go after Jews but they attacked other religions

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The Holocaust was a dark time in human history. People were persecuting others and treating them like animals. In the novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel, a boy named Elie and his father are taken to Auschwitz and subjected to the horrors that take place there. Wiesel claims that silence and neutrality are the greatest sins because they cause the victims to become despondent, they allow the oppressors to continue their crimes, and neutrality causes the prisoners to lose emotion. Neutrality and silence cause the victims of the Holocaust to become vulnerable because they stop showing compassion towards others and become hardened.

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Throughout the story “Night”, there are many ways and examples of man’s inhumanity to man. Elie and many other jews first experienced this when they were forced out of their homes to the concentration camp. Elie and other inmates witnessed violent actions daily at the concentration camps, from soldiers beating inmates and inmates fighting other inmates.  Experiencing these actions affected Elie and other people in the concentration camps.

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NIGHT Elie Wiesel Hundreds of bodies being thrown like a sack of potatoes and nobody caring about who they might be or who their family is. Father and sons wouldn't even look at each other, some even killed one another for food or they are delusional. That was the Holocaust, over 1 million jews killed. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Elie wrote his life story by using symbolism, tone, and irony to explain and tell the readers about his traumatic memories of his teen years.

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Throughout the story Night by Elie Wiesel, the most relevant themes that stand out are dehumanization as the Jewish people are labelled as nothing, loss of faith because their constant struggles makes them question a higher power and camaraderie between one another to sustain the death

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(?) Just because they were Jews they were tormented, starved, and even killed. Every Jew was considered an outsider or outcast in Germany and the horrific experience they went through was all because of their religion. This proves that being declared an outcast by society can be a punishing experience because of the torture that the Jews had to go through from the point of view of Adolf Hitler, who viewed them as

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The Holocaust was a terrible time in the world’s history. Not many Jewish people made it out of the Holocaust alive, but Elie Wiesel not only made it through the dark years, but he also wrote a book and delivered a speech. Both of these things were meant to tell the world about the horrors that happened in the concentration camps and raise awareness about the Holocaust. The book Night tells us what Elie’s journey throughout 1943-1945 (the time of the Holocaust) was like with Nazis controlling the Jews. In the speech Perils of Indifference, Elie explains why it is dangerous to not have an opinion on certain topics.

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One reoccurring theme that is present in the Holocaust is a change of identity with everyone involved. The incidents people confronted, especially the Jews, during this harsh time was life changing and traumatic. The identity of many in the concentration camps changed; young and innocent children developed into mature men. Elie Wiesel in the novella, Night, faces a change of identity within himself and the surrounding people, the Jews, through a variety of events that he encounters.

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Growing as a Character Every event in our lives happens for a reason, whether it is to learn from our mistakes or to gain experience from them. In Markus Zusak's novel “The Book Thief,” Liesel Meminger uses her experiences with living in the 1940s to learn life lessons and experience first hand the many terrible things Hitler is doing to people around her. She learns how to deal with the many obstacles that are thrown at her. Liesel grows as a character by following her step-father’s footsteps in being a kind and generous person, going through childhood with her best friend Rudy, and being aware of what is going on around her by learning from Max.

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