Comparing Night And A Thousand Splendid Suns

The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.

Night by Elie Wiesel remains a shocking and terrifying memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust, the murders of six million Jews and five million Gentiles. Elie, a victim of this dreadful event, was forced to separate from his family, and to miss the life he once had. Elie transformed into a unrecognizable, scarred person by the end of his journey. Elie’s traumatizing experiences in the concentration camps of Auschwitz affected him significantly; he changed both spiritually and in his relationship with his father.

The Holocaust is an unforgettable event to anyone who had to live through the horrors of a concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is no exception. He was taken to a concentration camp in 1944 and lost his mother and father in the concentration camps. Mr. Wiesel was brave enough to step forward and share his experiences during the Holocaust, which he recorded in his book Night. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to describe the uncertainty of one’s future before going and while in a concentration camp.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is written by author Khaled Hosseini, who is famously known for being the author of the book The Kite Runner. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, where the majority of the book takes place, and features many of the same issues the author faced growing up. After Khaled Hosseini wrote A Thousand Splendid Suns, it went on to be published by Riverhead books in May of 2007 with a total of 415 pages. The book is a fiction novel, even though the author sets the book where he was born and raised for the first eleven years of his life. A Thousand Splendid Suns is thrilling, and shows the struggle between love and loss, and how the lives of the Kabul were greatly affected.

Elie Wiesel from Night by Elie Wiesel, was put in the Auschwitz concentration camp with his father at only fifteen years old. If just being at the camp wasn’t enough, Elie’s father became sick, which made Elie have to work harder than ever to keep himself and his father alive. Elie put his father’s needs before his, which is what made him a hero. Throughout the book, Elie coaches his father to keep him alive. When his father was sick, he would ask “Did you sleep? How are you feeling?” Elie would give his father his portions of food

Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi and Night by Elie Wiesel are two tragic stories about the experience of these Holocaust survivors during the horrors of the second world war. In the 1940’s it was a very difficult time for Jews who were victimized by the German Nazis and sent to concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, where conditions were worse than imaginable. Elie first entered a concentration camp when he was 12, along with his father, mother, and three sisters. Levi, an Italian jew, was 24 when he was sent to the camps for participating in a resistance group, but unlike Wiesel, did not have his family by his side. Levi, despite his bitter character, acquires hope from the humanity and compassion of others while Wiesel, even with his strong relationship with his father, can't maintain his desire to hope for survival or alliances.

Elie Wiesel’s book “Night” shows the life of a father and son going through the concentration camp of World War II. Their life long journey begins from when they are taken from their home in Sighet, they experience harsh and inhuman conditions in the camps. These conditions cause Elie and his father’s relationship to change. During their time there, Elie and his father experience a reversal in roles.

Everyday, we go through situations and experiences that affect us in some way, perhaps even change us. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel begins towards the end of 1941 and records his experiences of the inconceivable horrors committed by the Nazi’s during World War II. The Germans believed in the Aryan race and attempted to commit total rule and testing on the ‘lesser’ races, particularly Jews. Through the brutality witnessed, acts of selfishness, the death of his father and the loss of his faith Elie changed. The innocent, deeply religious child had become a young man with a strong sense of morality. By the end of the war Elie could barely recognise himself, the corpse in the mirror, because of what he had become in order to survive life in the camps.

Often times it is very difficult for one to get through a difficult situation without the support of others. Relationships have never been as stressed as they were in the Holocaust, when the relationships of millions of Jewish families were forever changed. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, is just one of the millions of people whose relationship his family was forever altered by the Holocaust. The memoir, Night, displays the relationship of many fathers and sons that all changed in different ways. Through Wiesel’s memoir the reader discovers that the most adverse situations can pull relationships apart, but more often than not, they bring them closer.

The novel Night by Eliezer Wiesel tells the tale of a young Elie Wiesel and his experience in the concentration camps,and his fight to stay alive . The tragic story shows the jewish people during the Holocaust and their alienation from the world. Elie’s experience changes him mentally, and all actions in taken while in the concentration were based on one thing...Survival.

In the novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, there was much horror and tragedy. Millions of innocent people were beaten, yelled at, spit on, stripped of their pride and identity, and murdered. This brought stressful situations that changed the dynamics of families. Elie Wiesel and his father had been separated from his mother and sister as soon as they had arrived to the camp. Immediately, Elie had to take on a role of responsibility and strength.

Often authors write novels about their own traumatic experiences to inform readers about how brutal and inhuman mankind can be. In the memoir Night, the author Elie Wiesel narrates about his daily life starting in 1944 when he began living in different concentration camps struggling to survive the Holocaust, the mass killing of 6 million Jews as well as millions of other innocent people . The Nazi’s reason for killing the innocent was due to their race and religion. Most people are aware of the incidents that occurred during this particular time period, but what some people don’t know is how terrible the prisoners were really treated. Nothing has caused more pain and suffering for man than man himself.

“[My Father’s] last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered” (Wiesel 75). In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experiences of the tragedy known as the Holocaust. His first-hand experiences of a current Jew at the following concentration camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buna, and Buchenwald, were both atrocious and eloquent. Father-Son relationships were disregarded because of the situations involving the Holocaust.

Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his book “Night,” survived through some of the harshest conditions mankind has ever seen. Separated from his mother and sisters at the Auschwitz concentration camp, he and his dad had to keep each other alive while they were being held captive by the Nazi’s. Elie had to manage to survive off of little food, forced labor, and other inhumane living conditions. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, is affected by the events in this book by losing faith, becoming less sympathetic, and changing emotionally.

The authors Khaled Hosseini and Kurt Vonnegut write novels of critical acclaim. Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns explores the life of Mariam and her struggles with her husband and society, however, she finds reason to fight within a young girl. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five examines the life of Billy Pilgrim who goes through the bombing of Dresden and is kidnapped by an alien species, the Tralfamadorians, who allow Billy to travel through time.